make different decisions compared to women elected in general seats. Scheduled caste/tribe women favour capital investments …This paper uses panel data from the 16 main states in India during the period 1967- 1999 to study the effects of having … higher female representation in the State Legislatures on public goods, policy and expenditure. I find that women legislators …

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit … from a substantive positive discrimination in math but not in French. This bias is not explained by girls' better behavior …

findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: to gain less from negotiation, women appear to … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …

process has been the creation in 2010 of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, known as UN Women …, which came into operation on January 1, 2011. UN Women incorporates four existing parts of the UN system dealing with women … and has been styled as the new UN “gender architecture.” In this article we consider the implications of this new …

Labour market discrimination against women and parental discrimination against daughters are two of the most commonly … men and women's differential characteristics and the part that is due to labour market discrimination. The results reveal … cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market …

human rights norms regarding the principles of equality, non-discrimination and women’s rights. … international treaties regarding the principles of equality and non-discrimination. The paper, thus examines the proposition that …

Women working part-time in the UK have hourly earnings that are on average 26 percent less than women working fulltime …

In 2003, women working part-time in the UK earned, on average, 22% less than women working full-time. Compared to women … who work FT, PT women are more likely to have low levels of education, to be in a couple, to have young and numerous … of these differences, the PT penalty for identical women doing the same job is estimated to be about 10% if one does not …