In most OECD countries, only very few women succeed in reaching top executive positions. In this paper, the probability … disappearance of statistical discrimination against women who succeed getting into career track positions. The results reflect that …

This paper examines the influence of religion on female participation to the labor market using data relative to women … determinants of the probability of being employed rather than jobless in a LOGIT framework. The results show that women belonging …-active women, we find that there are small differences between them in the case of the Orthodox and Muslim women, while active …

reasons for such excess female mortality in the country. In this study, we argue that intra-household gender-discrimination in … current intra-household gender-disparities in getting medical care at least for life threatening illnesses. …

tended to reduce (not to increase) the gender wage gap: in fact, women have benefited both of changes in the degree of wage … rates (at over 80%), the unconditional gender gap in log hourly wages has increased by a half, while that in log of net and … suggests that the deterioration of women wages is caused by negative changes in observed characteristics (due to horizontal …

study examines the relationship in the case of women in top executive jobs and on boards of directors. We use data for the … 2500 largest Danish firms observed during the period 1993-2001 and find that the proportion of women in top management jobs … direction of causality. The results show that the positive effects of women in top management depend on the qualifications of …

At the Millennium Summit, the world community pledged to promote gender equality and chose as a specific target the … achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce …

have reduced, in the case of Belarus women’ activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender …Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates … compute an expected wage offer for women. The latter is included, in the second step, as a regressor in the structural female …

This paper analyses the gender gap in compensation for CEOs, Vice-Directors, and potential top executives in the 2000 … the period, the overall gender gap in compensation for top executives and potential top executives decreased from 35 … percent to 31 percent. However, contrary to many other studies, we do not find that the gender gap for Danish top executives …

This paper analyses the effect of housework on men and women’s wages in Denmark by estimating quantile regressions on … each of the years 1987-1991. We find, as in U.S. studies, that housework has negative effects on the wages of women and …, housework has a positive effect on the wages of women and a negative effect on the wages of men, and in fact, high-wage men …