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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 …
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the legal right to divorce, historically advocated by women emancipation movements. …
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The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in more egalitarian and more developed countries. Some scholars have explained this paradox by the existence of deeply rooted or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that...
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women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in …
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and women, from Google's German language book corpus. These additional series are broadly consistent with the evolution of …
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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 …
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women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial … variation in the occurrence of mineral deposits across districts. Results indicate that women's outcomes improve in the vicinity …
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when we control for municipality fixed effects as well as non-random sorting of women into municipalities using regression … women. The evidence is suggestive that female mayors are less able at fostering cooperation among men, or alternatively …, that men are more reluctant to be headed by women. Other interpretations receive less support in the data. Our results may …
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women to participate in these disciplines. This drop in social barrier materializes – later – by the authorization for women … of women in that sector and population mean, becomes more positive after removal of the social barrier. -- Gender …
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This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...
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