-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This chapter summarizes this research. We argue … that women's under-representation is concentrated in the math-intensive science fields of geosciences, engineering …, competition, risk aversion, and interests contribute to gender STEM gap, starting at childhood, solidifying by middle school, and …

We consider the role that workplace attributes play in accounting for the divergence in the careers of women and men … workplace "family friendliness" and analyze the effect of more family friendly workplaces on the career gaps between mothers and … the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce …

Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as a potential explanation for gender differences in … education and labor market outcomes. We correlate an incentivized measure of competitiveness with an important career choice of … of profile choice as gender. More importantly, up to 23 percent of the gender difference in profile choice can be …

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 …

Many studies have shown that women are under-represented in tenured ranks in the sciences. We evaluate whether gender … facts using the 1973-2001 Survey of Doctorate Recipients. We find that women are less likely to take tenure track positions … in science, but the gender gap is entirely explained by fertility decisions. We find that in science overall, there is no …

retrospective. Using longitudinal panel data (on married women in NLS) we have now established that real wages at reentry are …

men's educational or family outcomes. The results are quite different for women: we find effects on both career and family … outcomes. Attending a school with a 100-point higher average SAT score increases women's probability of advanced degree …. The effect of college selectivity on own earnings is significantly larger for married than for single women. Among married …