This paper studies the impact of services liberalization on education and the gender education gap at the district … shares of female employment and require high education investments. Our hypothesis is that the national-level liberalization … spurred higher investment in education, particularly girls’ education, in districts with higher employment growth in these key …

. Women face disadvantage in accessing management positions and entrepreneurship. A range of policies can help reduce gender … upskilling on return from parental leave, encouraging gender equality within firms, integration programmes for foreign-born women … dimensions and root causes of gender inequality call for mainstreaming gender across policy domains. …

gender reforms, which have the potential to counteract legal gains in women's freedoms, and help explain why potential …

candidates. This decline is most pronounced in states with entrenched gender bias and in male-headed parties, suggesting an … institutionalized demand-side barriers rather than gender-specific preferences and constraints …

legal mandates. Understanding the effects of gender diversity in terms of economic performance is important to assess the … impact of these changes. Data on team dynamics and gender differences in preferences (risk-taking behavior, taste for … competition, prosocial behavior) show how gender composition influences group decision-making and subsequent performance through …

between education institutions and employment, iii) providing training opportunities during working life, and iv) making …

educational attainment or skills. Gender is a further dimension in which the impacts of trade liberalization can differ. In a … globalizing world it is important to understand whether and how trade policy can contribute toward enhancing gender convergence in …