: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …

Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps … gender norms. In this study, we design an experiment to compare the effectiveness of targeting only adolescent girls with an … approach that additionally engages with the enforcers of gender norms in the wider community. We find that both arms of the …

country for men, and more than 45% of the variation for women. This indicates that education policy has an important role to …

The comovement between gender gaps in hours and wages across countries and skills reveals the presence of net demand … forces shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes. This paper links the rich pattern of variation in gender gaps to … gender bias in labor demand can be decomposed into measurable within- and between-industry components. Using comparable micro …

Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender … gender convergence, and novel perspectives on remaining gender gaps. The paper finally emphasizes the interplay between … gender trends and the evolution of the industry structure. Based on a shift-share decomposition, it shows that the growth in …

parents of school-aged children in two-parent opposite-gender families. In line with existing evidence, we find that mothers … than their partners. We go further to show that these gender differences cannot be explained by gender differences in the … industries and occupations in which parents worked prior to the lockdown. Nor can they be explained by gender differences in …

at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with … gender outcomes. Most estimates of the impact of parental leave entitlement on female labor market outcomes range from … negligible to weakly positive. The verdict is far more positive for the beneficial impact of spending on early education and …