women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in …

and women, from Google's German language book corpus. These additional series are broadly consistent with the evolution of …

associated with an increase in Japanese women's decision to work by 0.016 percentage points, the equivalent of an increase of 3 ….4% standard deviation. Our measure of non-traditional gender norms is the share of women who disagree with the statement "men … should work outside and women should look after the family". As we conduct a battery of sensitivity analyses and placebo …

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 …

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 …

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 …

institutional biases against women from other constraints and hurdles that female businesses might face by exploiting detailed trade … controlling for other factors that affect female businesses uniformly across all markets. We provide evidence that gender … inequality and institutional biases against women in trade partner countries play an important role in explaining gender …