The status of women in economics in the US has come increasingly under the spotlight. We exploit high quality … administrative data to paint the first comprehensive picture of the status of women in UK academic economics departments in research …-intensive universities. Our evidence indicates that, as in the US, women in economics are under-represented and are paid less than men. The …

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 …

for 28 European countries from the 2012 EU survey on violence against women, and focus on first- and second …-generation immigrant women. We find that, after controlling for country-of-residence fixed effects, as well as demographic characteristics …

Social norms can mitigate the effectiveness of formal institutions, in particular the way legal reforms may affect … women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i … legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish …

mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the labor market. Macroeconomic …

While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in … men and women. This finding also holds in a recursive multivariate probit model that accounts for potential endogeneity of …

In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession … caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the … causes and consequences of this phenomenon. We argue that women have experienced sharp employment losses both because their …

We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment … declines among women. We examine the causes behind this pattern using micro data from several national labor force surveys, and … show that both the composition of women's employment across industries and occupations as well as increased childcare needs …

This paper examines the impact of the Athena Scientific Women's Academic Network (SWAN) Charter on the wages and … practice towards the representation and career progression of women in Science, Technology, Engineer, Mathematics, and Medicine …