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 …

This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression … analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a … association with women's empowerment while other variables such as residence and the age at first marriage were negatively …

women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i … legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish … that compared to women of patrilocal tradition, matrilocal women should divorce relatively more after the reform and, for …

While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in … men and women. This finding also holds in a recursive multivariate probit model that accounts for potential endogeneity of …

Starting in 2002, each electoral district in Taiwan is required to reserve one seat for women out of every four seats … to develop a career in politics. The gender quota also empowers married women to play a more active role in multiple … egalitarian gender attitudes from women …

women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in …

The worldwide obesity epidemic has impacted women more heavily than men. These gender-based differences are …

arbitrary division of ancestral ethnic homelands across countries with different legal origins, we directly compare women among … the same ethnic group living in civil law countries and common law countries. We find that, on average, women in common … norms do not promote women's rights and empowerment. In particular, we find little effect in bride price societies …

when we control for municipality fixed effects as well as non-random sorting of women into municipalities using regression … women. The evidence is suggestive that female mayors are less able at fostering cooperation among men, or alternatively …, that men are more reluctant to be headed by women. Other interpretations receive less support in the data. Our results may …