Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically … women to a career pipeline can reduce gender gaps in higher-ranking positions over time. Specifically, we examine the … 2014. We use close elections won by women contesting state legislature seats to identify the effect of pipeline expansion …

Discontinuity design for close mayoral elections between female and male candidates in Brazil, we find that electing female mayors … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of … suggests that female mayors might implement different policies from male mayors and therefore contribute to reduce gender …

and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to …This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …

-wing "Republikaner" party and the left-wing Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in the two recent elections of the European Parliament in …

, consistent with the typical view of political analysts in the U.S. This average effect – which is driven by elections in the …

elections and control variables on demographics and public goods provision to construct a unique panel data set for 16 large …