This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … career paths, and we randomize whether a professional receives a message from a male or a female student. We focus the … experimental design and analysis on two career attributes that prior research has shown to differentially affect the labor market …

and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … several explanations, we conclude that the gender gap in political career progression is consistent with the existence of a …This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service …

gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and … boys when having a same-sex teacher in this subject in grade 10, teacher gender matters only for girls with respect to …

In this paper, we first document trends in the gender composition of academic economists over the past 25 years, the … publishing, promotion, and tenure. While underlying gender differences can directly affect the relative productivity of men and … women, due to either differential constraints or preferences, productivity gaps do not fully explain the gender disparity in …

fictitious peer pursue different college majors and career paths simply because of their gender. We find strong evidence that …Occupational segregation is one of the major causes of the gender pay gap. We probe the possibility that individual … beliefs regarding gender stereotypes established in childhood contribute to gendered sorting. Using an experiment with two …

managing, career aspirations as an early intervention to close gender career gaps. … characteristics. This aspiration gap can explain a large part of the gender promotion gap that is observed later. We propose a model … show that aspirations are affected by early work experiences - facing harassment or demeaning comments early in the career …

This study examines how career interruptions and subsequent wages of employees are related. Using individual panel data … interruptions as well as between various compensation components. We show that career interruptions are more related to lower … higher interruption pay gaps than those resulting from other reasons. In addition, the pay gap after career interruptions is …

stable adjusted gender pay gap already exists among early-career academics who do not have children, and that the gap widens …The number of countries that have devoted time and attention to establishing gender equality regulations in academia is …

happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … persistence over the career. We find a continuous process whereby women are more likely to exit STEM than men. Among holders of … business sector and that this can partly explain the gender pay gap for STEM graduates. Overall, our results suggest that …

labor market, such as gender stereotypes and gender identity. This paper examines gender stereotypes and self … survey data used contain detailed information about the managers as well as their employers. We find significant gender … differences between managers with regard to gender stereotyping attitudes. Male managers on average tend to have stronger gender …