women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this … sector plays a minor role in low-income countries. Another difference is that women's employment rebounded much more quickly …

the legal right to divorce, historically advocated by women emancipation movements. …

We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …

This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the … inequality on both costs and benefits of migration. At low levels of women's rights, increases in the index lead to increases in … the female brain drain ratio. This is consistent with, at low levels of women's rights, prohibitively high costs 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 …

important stages are the initial college major choice and the college-to-career transition. Men are far more likely than women … job, accounting for 44% of the overall gap. Women who start in STEM majors are also less likely to graduate in STEM … (accounting for 16%), while the gap in pre-college STEM-readiness is a small factor (8%). Women attend college at much higher …

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 …

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 …

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 …