We consider the role that workplace attributes play in accounting for the divergence in the careers of women and men … the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce … the penalty to wage rates earned by women with their transition to motherhood (i.e., the motherhood penalty), but it would …

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 …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … the level of development, women's education, the expansion of the service sector, and discrimination. More recent … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs. This …

In theory, growing wage inequality within gender should cause women to invest more in their market productivity and … should differentially pull able women into the workforce, thereby closing the measured gender gap even though women's wages … measured women's relative wage growth coincided with growth of wage inequality within-gender, and attribute the measured gender …

panel data from three rather different educational institutions, and use them to examine the relationship between the gender … composition of the students in an academic department and the gender composition of its faculty at the time the students were …

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 career and family outcomes of college graduate women suggest that the twentieth century contained five distinct … graduated college from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Using the NLS Young Women I demonstrate that 13 to 18 percent achieved …

The impact of the pandemic on the employment, labor supply, and caregiving of women is assessed. Compared with previous … recessions, that induced by COVID-19 impacted women's employment and labor force participation more relative to men. But the big … divide was less between men and women than it was between the more- and the less-educated. Contrary to many accounts, women …

for women relative to men. Based on a dynamic decomposition framework, we show that the fraction of gender inequality …Despite considerable gender convergence over time, substantial gender inequality persists in all countries. Using … Danish administrative data from 1980-2013 and an event study approach, we show that most of the remaining gender inequality …