-long transformation of Kampala involving a gender Kuznets curve. Men rapidly acquired literacy and quickly found their way into white …-collar (high-status) employment in the wage economy built by the Europeans. Women took somewhat longer to obtain literacy and …’s view that gender inequality was rooted in indigenous social norms: daughters of African men who worked in the traditional …

determined by his/her market income. Men are reluctant to grant women easy access to the labor market as, despite the obvious … on women toward less discrimination, while the exact opposite holds for men with low-income spouses. Our findings suggest … men have discriminatory views; at around annual per capita incomes of 15.000 USD there is a turning point and non …

We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap that turns on the interaction between men and women in … households. In equilibria where men are over-represented in full-time work, we show that firms rationally choose to hire women … only at strictly lower wages to men. The model developed predicts a gap even controlling for education, occupation and …

analysis reveals that the crowding of women onto the lower rungs of academia is a strong determinant of their lower average … salary. This effect should be transitory as young women, now entering the profession, move up its ranks. We construct a rank …

increases the probability of election for women and decreases it for men. The impact of the quota on quality depends on the … public office determines the overall quality of politicians. Women suffer from gender discrimination in the labor market and … public oce are low, or when the rewards from pubic office are high but women are significantly discriminated against in the …

institutional mechanisms that achieve long-term commitment, the opposite may be true, particularly if women are specialized in … migrant women lead them to bear the double burden of market and household work. …

may lead to women meeting tougher promotion standards than men. If employers expect women to do more household work than … men and by that exert less effort in the paid job, the more talented she must be to make promotion profitable. Moreover …, specialization in the family will then make women do most of the household work. Such self-fulfilling prophecies can be broken: Both …

evidence for men. Our series cast light on long run trends in women’s agency and wellbeing, revealing an intractable, indeed … widening gap between women and men’s remuneration in the centuries following the Black Death. This informs several recent …This paper presents a wage series for unskilled English women workers from 1260 to 1850 and compares it with existing …