a comparative advantage at violence and there is little rule-of-law, then unequal bargaining power can lead women to … entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and … industries with more women, but gender differences are ameliorated when women have access to adjudicating institutions, such as …

and women to become board nominees, and that it did not lead to new female board nominees being of lower quality than male …

for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …

In this paper, we document the historically low rate of hiring of women in the venture capital sector. We find that the …

Are the political preferences of CEOs associated with the representation and compensation of women in the executive … representation of women in the executive suite. To explore causality, we use an event study approach and show that replacing a … Republican with a Democratic CEO is associated with 20%-60% in more women in the executive suite. Finally, we show that …

A vast labor literature has found evidence of a "glass ceiling", whereby women are under-represented among senior …, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the ability of female managers. Disentangling these theories would require … data on productivity, on the preferences of those who interact with managers, and on perceptions of productivity. Financial …

large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line managers, we find that several key dimensions of managerial quality …