for corporate board membership. The main aim of these laws is breaking the "glass ceiling" which prevents women from … evidence of spillover effects on the representation of women in top executive or top earnings positions. Our results confirm …

work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven …

evidence suggest that it may be problematic for women to reach a white-collar high skill job, also in the more protected public … periods of up to 20 years (for Egypt), we examine the evolution of the glass ceiling problem for women resorting to the …

We analyze the impact of women's managerial representation on the gender pay gap among employees on the establishment … share of women in management significantly reduces the gender pay gap within the firm. An increase in the share of women in … percent by 1.2 percentage points, i.e. to roughly 14 percent. The effect is stronger for women in second-level than first …

. We first find that women have significantly lower promotion rates than men across all ranks of the corporate hierarchy … positive gender spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within … ranks suggests that policies that increase female representation in corporate leadership can have spillover benefits to …

and women in their early aspirations to become law firm partners, despite similar early investments and educational …

choices of women: the extent to which a career accommodates work/life balance and has a competitive culture. When students ask …

female labor forces. We also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender …The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and …

This paper examines the persistent effects of historical labor market institutions and policies on women's long …-World War II mandatory reconstruction policy, which compelled women to work in the rubble removal and reconstruction process … era generated persistent adverse effects on women's long-term labor market outcomes. An increase in marriage and fertility …

leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a …