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 …

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 …

Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over …

This paper examines the impact of the Athena Scientific Women's Academic Network (SWAN) Charter on the wages and … practice towards the representation and career progression of women in Science, Technology, Engineer, Mathematics, and Medicine …

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

women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial … variation in the occurrence of mineral deposits across districts. Results indicate that women's outcomes improve in the vicinity …