SHIRIN M. RAI is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK. Her main areas of research are gender and international political economy, democratization and political institutions, and she is the author of Gender and the International Political Economy of Development.
GEORGINA WAYLEN is Reader in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK. Her main areas of research are gender and international political economy and gender and transitions to democracy. She is the author of Engendering Transitions and Gender in Third World Politics.