choices of women: the extent to which a career accommodates work/life balance and has a competitive culture. When students ask …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 …

managing, career aspirations as an early intervention to close gender career gaps. … and women in their early aspirations to become law firm partners, despite similar early investments and educational … characteristics. This aspiration gap can explain a large part of the gender promotion gap that is observed later. We propose a model …

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 …

and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … compare the differential political career progression of women who closely win versus closely lose a state legislature … several explanations, we conclude that the gender gap in political career progression is consistent with the existence of a …

Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be … because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at …. Using matched employer-employee data from 2013-14, the paper finds that the women-don't-ask account is incorrect. Once an …

and promotions. No reform affected fathers' pay or the gender pay gaps between mothers and their male colleagues and …

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 …

We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men … over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation … industry structure. For a given change in the exposure to automation across commuting zones, women were more likely than men to …

This paper examines the hypothesis that the gender salary gap observed in the academic labour market is predominantly … analysis reveals that the crowding of women into the lower rungs of academia is a strong determinant of their lower average … salary. This effect should be transitory as young women, now entering the profession, move up its ranks. We construct a rank …

persistently compared to fathers. In addition to gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to …