larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM … participation increases with more female peers present. In the long run, women exposed to more female peers are less likely to work …

extent to which these trends encompass the most elite departments, and how women's representation across fields of study … within economics has changed. We then review the recent literature on other dimensions of women's relative position in the … publishing, promotion, and tenure. While underlying gender differences can directly affect the relative productivity of men and …

attitudes using a randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental data from Tunisia. Women that appear most conservative …

Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women … women's participation over 2011-13. We exploit the geographical heterogeneity along these two margins to conduct a double … difference analysis using data surrounding the period. We find a significant improvement in women's final say regarding decisions …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of … capabilities across a range of dimensions are then developed for some 6000 women and used to estimate a number of propensity score …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …

arbitrary division of ancestral ethnic homelands across countries with different legal origins, we directly compare women among … the same ethnic group living in civil law countries and common law countries. We find that, on average, women in common … norms do not promote women’s rights and empowerment. In particular, we find little effect in bride price societies …

share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are … interpret this as an overall indication that women are not only underrepresented in German supervisory boards, they are even … more underrepresented in important board positions. Indeed, women are less likely to become a chairman and are less often …

promoting women in research activities. Exploiting a newly collected data set on recruitment processes to entry-level research … positions in a leading Italian research centre operating mainly in the hard sciences, the study finds that bias against women … discriminating against women. The results suggest that gender of the committee members, network structure and type of recruitment …

This paper examines whether globalization promotes female empowerment by improving the jobs available to women … Myanmar. In this study, restricting to garment factory neighborhoods, we find that women living near exporting factories are …