share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are … interpret this as an overall indication that women are not only underrepresented in German supervisory boards, they are even … more underrepresented in important board positions. Indeed, women are less likely to become a chairman and are less often …

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 …

the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …

women specializing in traditionally male-dominated fields are faring significantly better than their counterparts in female …

effect on the share of women in the firm's core labor force and the proportion of female directors. However, transition … instruments to achieve Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ambitious policy goal of "increasing the share of women in leadership positions …

We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High … coworkers may hamper women’s career advancement. Third, individual incentive linking pay to objective performance may enhance …

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women …, if women who are employed tend to have relatively high-wage characteristics, low female employment rates may become … consistent with low gender wage gaps simply because low-wage women would not feature in the observed wage distribution. We …

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 …

the legal right to divorce, historically advocated by women emancipation movements. …