(CPFL) on women’s employment, earnings, and childbearing. A regression-discontinuity design exploits the sharp increase in … the weeks of paid leave available under the law. We find no evidence that CPFL increased employment, boosted earnings, or …, we find that CPFL reduced employment and earnings roughly a decade after they gave birth. …

employment discrimination against U.S. women. For the next 15 years, the gender gap in median earnings among full-time, full … little evidence of short-term changes in women's employment, but some results suggest that firms reduced their hiring and …