support for the Lehman Sisters Hypothesis. It shows that gender stereotypes are still influential, constraining women to … achieve top positions in banking. At the same time, the analysis indicates that women perform better than men in finance and … having more rather than less women at the top of the financial sector. …

data include gender indicators (mostly female-male gaps) in education, health and the labour market and show lack of … progress or even declines in gender equality in these periods of crises in the eight countries analyzed. Moreover, a control … group of countries is used as counterfactual, indicating better performance on gender equality and hence, a diverging trend …

Focusing on urban Kenya, this paper attempts to identify the sources of the temporal increase in women’s employment … studies. The analysis presented in the paper shows that the bulk of the increase in women’s insertion into the labour market … comes from an increase in the work participation of married women. While women’s higher educational endowments, particularly …