mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the labor market. Macroeconomic …

), policymakers often propose providing women with close mentoring by female scientists. This is based on the idea that female … advisor gender on women's STEM degree attainment. We exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to academic … or advising by female scientists can play an important role in promoting women's participation and persistence in STEM …

larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM … participation increases with more female peers present. In the long run, women exposed to more female peers are less likely to work …

into account the fact that women still face an unequal access to tertiary education in many less developed countries, it … appears that women are over-represented in the brain drain. This result is reinforced by econometric estimates showing that … emigration of highly skilled women is higher, the poorer is their country of origin. This effect is also observed for men but to …

share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are ….We interpret this as an overall indication that women are not only underrepresented in German supervisory boards, they are even … more underrepresented in important board positions. Indeed, women are less likely to become a chairman and are less often …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment – sibling gender composition – affects women … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

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 …

The paper re-examines the question of why unions might have declined despite the 'influx' of women, their risk … share of women in workplaces. The paper ponders if better management of gender relations may improve unions' fate …

This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender … effect on the share of women in the firm's core labor force and the proportion of female directors. However, transition … instruments to achieve Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ambitious policy goal of "increasing the share of women in leadership positions …

assign women and men to jobs and occupations.The investigation of a subsample of performance pay workers for whom we are able …