Female-to-male employment in Senegal increased by 14 percentage points between 2006 and 2011. During the same period … employment in Senegal. To that end, we build an overlapping generations model that captures barriers that women face over their … increased in female-to-male employment ratio and (ii) the rest can be explained by a decline in the discrimination against women …

Early evidence on the pandemic's effects pointed to women's employment falling disproportionately, leading observers to … to two-thirds exhibiting larger declines in women's than men's employment rates. These gender differences in COVID-19's … related to COVID-19's impacts on gender shares in employment within sectors …

forward. Using the U.S. monthly Current Population Survey data, this paper analyzes differences in employment responses … during the first nine months of the crisis.The loss of employment of women with young children due to the burden of … additional childcare is estimated to account for 45 percent of the increase in the employment gender gap, and to reduce total …