relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …

Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major … role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development … equality between men and women …

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women … women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or … conversely, do women's rights facilitate development? We argue that there is truth to both hypotheses. The literature on the …

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 …, we distinguish between four types of women's rights--economic, political, labor, and body--and document their evolution …

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

We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men … over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation … industry structure. For a given change in the exposure to automation across commuting zones, women were more likely than men to …

How, when, and why did women in the US obtain legal rights equal to men's regarding the workplace, marriage, family … right to vote? The story begins with the civil rights movement and the somewhat fortuitous nature of the early and key women …'s rights legislation. The women's movement formed and pressed for further rights. Of the 155 critical moments in women's rights …

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … these policies. Using the American Time Use Survey, we find that women are less likely than men to have access to any … young women are more likely to have access to specifically designated paid parental leave, even in part-time jobs. Both …

-defined population. Our results indicate that women have lower probabilities of promotion and expected promotion than do men but that …