WTO, improvements in women's household status will depend upon their wages and the gender wage gap. …This paper addresses the question, “does market work improve women's household status in rural China?” using survey … data of men and women working in Township and Village Enterprises in rural Jiangsu and Shandong. This paper measures …

This paper uses dictator experiments to examine gender differences in altruistic behavior in the United States when … decisions are made individually and jointly. In anonymous individual giving to charity, women give substantially more than men … only in mixed-sex groups, indicating a gender-based component to the value of the social signal sent. Although men and …

Since their inception in 1995, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Gender-Related Development Index (GDI …) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) have been criticized on conceptual and empirical grounds. In 2005-6, the UNDP's Human … adjusting the recommendations, making concrete proposals for two gender-related indicators, and presenting illustrative results …

These Explorations, by eight authors from Canada, China, the US, and the UK, examine the current status of women in … analyze results of surveys that show the distribution of academic positions among women economists in universities in Canada … in furthering the status of women in the economics profession and suggests ways to improve the efforts of such groups and …

Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment … (proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using the most recent data and investigating … analysis to employment gaps using panel data. We find that gender gaps in education and employment considerably reduce economic …

apply the technique of decomposing the coefficient of variation to examine the impact of changes in married women … has led to a drastic decline in the employment rates of women, especially those married to low-earning husbands, and the … change in women's employment was a major force driving income inequality in post-restructuring urban China. …