happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … persistence over the career. We find a continuous process whereby women are more likely to exit STEM than men. Among holders of … STEM undergraduate degrees, women are more likely to obtain a non- STEM master's degree. Then, after entering the labour …

larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM … participation increases with more female peers present. In the long run, women exposed to more female peers are less likely to work …

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 …

This paper examines whether globalization promotes female empowerment by improving the jobs available to women … Myanmar. In this study, restricting to garment factory neighborhoods, we find that women living near exporting factories are …

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. …

This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the … inequality on both costs and benefits of migration. At low levels of women's rights, increases in the index lead to increases in … the female brain drain ratio. This is consistent with, at low levels of women's rights, prohibitively high costs of …

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 rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women … women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or … conversely, do women's rights facilitate development? We argue that there is truth to both hypotheses. The literature on the …