We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how … these gaps have changed over time. We show that while there is gender parity at the entry level in most countries by the end …

managing, career aspirations as an early intervention to close gender career gaps … characteristics. This aspiration gap can explain a large part of the gender promotion gap that is observed later. We propose a model … show that aspirations are affected by early work experiences – facing harassment or demeaning comments early in the career …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … career paths, and we randomize whether a professional receives a message from a male or a female student. We focus the … experimental design and analysis on two career attributes that prior research has shown to differentially affect the labor market …

We analyze the relationship between social attitudes on gender equality and firms' pay-setting behavior by combining … information about regional votes relative to gender equality laws with a large data set of multi-branch firms and workers. The … acceptance of gender inequality than in branches located in regions with a lower acceptance. The results are similar for …

and working career in Spain, where changes in female behavior with respect to the labor market have been relatively recent … that family plays a crucial role as a source of gender differences in the labor market in Spain. By 2008, children are the …‐time. However, children do not seem to contribute to explain the observed gender wage gap (5%) between college men and women …

We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader …

This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps … council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide evidence for a gender recontest gap among both incumbent and non …

We analyze individual career transitions of men and women in Germany. Our particular focus is on the association of … significant negative relationship between the contemporaneous probability of having a child and horizontal career transitions for … women, and a positive significant association of the hazard of parenthood with upward career transitions for men. These …

compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most … findings relate to persistent gender differences in career outcomes … more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …