This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women … in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors … retirement of Arab women from the labour market. We find that all four of these factors affect the probability of Palestinian …

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 …

The worldwide obesity epidemic has impacted women more heavily than men. These gender-based differences are …

This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …

attitudes using a randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental data from Tunisia. Women that appear most conservative …

The supply of women into senior management has changed little despite well-intentioned efforts. We argue that the … idea. It is to use a particular form of random selection of candidates to increase the supply of women into management … biggest effect is from supply-side factors that inhibit females' decision to enter competitions: Women are under …

Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women's careers … around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only …

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 …

pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … among adult women. Impacts on anemic status are driven by the growth of PM2.5 pollution attributable to emissions from coal …