We examine gender differences in career progression and promotions in central banking, a stereotypical male … 2010 when the ECB issued a public statement supporting diversity and took several measures to support gender balance ….Following this change, the promotion gap disappears. The gender promotion gap prior to this policy change is partly driven by the …

. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …

the 1870-1930 period. We proxy the gender wage gap with the level of per capita income and the cost of disenfranchisement …. The gender gap in the preferences for public goods is proxied by the availability of divorce, which implies marital …

living in 9 host countries, we find that the positive effects of country-of-ancestry gender social norms on girls' math test … that social gender norms affect parent's expectations on girls' academic knowledge relative to that of boys, but not on … (as opposed to math-specific) gender stereotypes on the math gender gap, and suggest that parents' gender social norms …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

jointly, however, mainly due to the lack of relevant data. This paper addresses this shortcoming by looking at the gender … identify people by country of residence, place of birth, gender and level of education. The evidence summarized in this paper … are now more or less gender-balanced. A more surprising result is that this is also true for the highly skilled. Taking …

on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board director matched panel data for Norway and Germany …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about … the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …

happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … business sector and that this can partly explain the gender pay gap for STEM graduates. Overall, our results suggest that …

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 …

share of women in workplaces. The paper ponders if better management of gender relations may improve unions' fate …