Using three waves of a uniquely rich survey on Italian private firms, we explore the impact of female managers on the … use of part-time work. Building on a literature arguing that female leaders are more sensitive to their employees' needs … relation to working time arrangements. Results indicate that female managers are indeed more responsive to their employees …

", i.e. convenient for combining career and household activities, and increase female labor participation. The policy … more women working in the public sector, but did end up leading to an increase in female working hours. It was not through … children and slightly increased the engagement of part-time employees with children. It did not directly increase female labor …

In this paper, we investigate the association between female leadership, work organization practices and perceived … female "boss" is associated with lower overall gender discrimination at work. The female boss effect, however, differs across … gender: it is associated with lower discrimination among female employees, but higher among male employees. We also …

in the female entrepreneurship field of research. Even if work-family balance should be a necessity indiscriminately …