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Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality in society. In this paper, using newly … collected nationally representative datasets from 60 countries that cover over 80% of the world population, we study gender …, prioritizing women when hiring for leadership positions. We establish that misperceptions of gender norms are pervasive across the …
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Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...
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The modern economic role of women emerged in four phases. The first three were evolutionary; the last was revolutionary. Phase I occurred from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s; Phase II was from 1930 to 1950; Phase III extended from 1950 to the late 1970s; and Phase IV, the "quiet...
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inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …
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The distribution of parental leave uptake and childcare activities continues to conform to traditional gender roles. In … 2002, with the goal of increasing gender equality, Sweden added a second "daddy month," i.e., an additional month of pay … after the reform by gender and household type (the parents' education). We find that changed incentives and, especially …
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Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … datasets show insignificant gender differentials in access to employer-subsidized child care and access to scheduling …
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study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our … attached to promotions, and relatively few studies on gender differences have considered promotions and wage increases together … there is essentially no gender difference in wage growth with or without promotions …
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This paper addresses the question of whether societies that afford economic opportunity to women offer other opportunities as well. The analysis in this paper shows that the performance of a country's women in international athletic competition reflects the degree of their relative participation...
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wages, the gender wage gap and the gender composition of employment. The focus is the pay equity initiative of the Canadian …
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the difficulty of tasks and gender stereotypes. We develop a theoretical model that separates these forces and apply it to … ability both for themselves and for others. Gender stereotypes also have strong predictive power for beliefs, particularly for … gender gaps in self-confidence …
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