. We first find that women have significantly lower promotion rates than men across all ranks of the corporate hierarchy … positive gender spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within … women in lowers ranks …

We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India … with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not … increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that more women-owned establishments were created in the unorganized …

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 …

Women remain disadvantaged in access to management positions around the world. We conduct a field experiment with 24 … large garment factories in Bangladesh to test for inefficient representation of women among line supervisors. We identify … factories at baseline. This suggests that factories previously promoted fewer women than would have been optimal. Additional …

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

In the World Bank Enterprise Survey, the share of entrepreneurs who are women first rises and then falls with national …. This paper presents a model of entrepreneurship in which women face disadvantages, including discrimination from workers … mean that women are less likely to start more complex organizations. In the model, women face the most level playing field …

This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break … through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher … education at the college level and beyond and then go on to examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia …