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employment trajectories of female faculty. The Athena SWAN Charter is a gender equality initiative that formally recognises good … (STEMM) through an accreditation process. We find that the gender wage gap closes after Athena SWAN accreditation. However …
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We study the gender dimension of occupational exposure to contagious diseases spread by the respiratory or close … also more likely than men to be unable to work from home, which contributes to their increased exposure. Gender is a more … important factor in workers' exposure to contagion than their education or age. This gender difference in exposure can be …
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This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender … (WLB) practices that are developed in part to enhance gender equality as well as performance-related pay (PRP) that is one … period part-time work is found to result in a decrease in the proportion of female directors (or exacerbating gender …
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This paper is the first to provide evidence that cultural attitudes towards gender equality affect behaviors with … that descending from more gender-equal societies makes girls relatively more prone to smoke than boys. Using data from over … that the higher the degree of gender equality in the country of ancestry, the higher the likelihood that immigrant girls …
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In many high-income economies, the recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented declines in women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a specific focus on Nigeria, the most populous country in...
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Papal States gender inequality was particularly severe, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany experienced a relatively stronger female …
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's impact on the labor market. Another notable finding is the central role of telecommuting: gender gaps in the employment … telecommuters a different kind of gender gap arises: women working from home during the pandemic spent more work time also doing … childcare and experienced greater productivity reductions than men. We discuss what our findings imply for gender equality in a …
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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 …
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We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational … persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …
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macroeconomic model featuring heterogeneity in gender, marital status, childcare needs, and human capital. Our quantitative analysis … within-household insurance; ii) result in a widening of the gender wage gap throughout the recovery; and iii) contribute to a … weakening of the gender norms that currently produce a lopsided distribution of the division of labor in home work and childcare. …
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