This paper examines gender inequality focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …: education and work. Our objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …. Finally, we reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …

Research on sex differences in humans documents gender differences in sensory, motor and spatial aptitudes. These … aptitudes, as captured by Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) codes, predict the occupational choices of men and women in … of gender based occupational segregation by 20-23 percent in 1970 and 2012. Eliminating selection on DOT variables …

, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … it is not publicly available - in particular, data on racial, ethnic, and gender disparities within specific companies … measure the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of company workforces. We use predictive tools based on both names and …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are … segregation was reduced over the 1970-2009 period was through the entry of new cohorts of women, presumably better prepared than …

Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of …

This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage inequality - gender … gender. A reduction in tariffs induces more productive firms to modernize their technology and enter the export market. New … relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …

The empowerment of women within households remains a major issue around the world including in Africa. We have … conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in …

compensation and expected hours worked. As an example, we apply this framework to the gender wage gap and show how it can explain … the view expressed in recent work that hours differences between men and women represent a large and growing component of … the gender wage gap …