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 …

Papal States gender inequality was particularly severe, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany experienced a relatively stronger female … the legal right to divorce, historically advocated by women emancipation movements. …

The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in … or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that materialize more easily in countries where economic constraints are …-country differences in essentialist gender norms regarding math aptitudes and appropriate occupational choices. To this aim, we propose a …

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 …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …

.4% standard deviation. Our measure of non-traditional gender norms is the share of women who disagree with the statement "men … variation in the share of individuals with non-traditional gender norms across birth-cohorts, survey year, education, and … associated with an increase in Japanese women's decision to work by 0.016 percentage points, the equivalent of an increase of 3 …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

and proceeded until the beginning of 2015, when the German parliament enacted a board gender quota. In that period, the … share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are … investigate whether the rise in female board representation was accompanied by a change in gender differences in board member …

applications sent to genuine vacancies. We find that volunteers get one third more interview invitations than non‐volunteers. The …

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 …