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Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees …
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entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …
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Although women earn approximately 50% of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees, more than …
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Women in the MENA region are economically and socially disempowered. High youth unemployment rates together with … to relax human capital constraints for women by offering vocational, business and life skills training in 30 villages in … rural Egypt. Relative to women in the control villages, the intervention increased the likelihood of treated women engaging …
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Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically … precede high-status positions. This can occur by increasing the supply of experienced women, inspiring new female candidates … for these positions, and/or changing beliefs about women as leaders. In this study, we investigate whether and how adding …
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-lasting positive effects on labor market and marriage outcomes, particularly for women. We give insights on internal migration as a … outcome of university construction. Local universities reduced men's migration for study and women's migration for early …, particularly for women. …
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This paper studies the gendered labor market and demographic effects of trade liberalization in Peru. To identify these effects, we use variation in the exposure of local labor markets to import competition from China based on their baseline industrial composition. On average, the increase in...
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