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 …

How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women's labour market participation? This issue is … light of trends in women's participation in the labour market and two key changes in the structure of taxation: a shift from …

-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … division of labor shows that norms can act as a binding constraint, producing much smaller increases in women's labor supply to …

closes because women's wages rise with the share female managers in the workplace while men's wages fall. Panel and … proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they reward performance and … those managers are women. These findings suggest a stronger presence of women in managerial positions can help tackle the …

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 …

it because it generates anxiety. We run a field experiment to analyze whether in an incentivized setting men and women … while women are more willing to present face-to-face, they are considerably less likely to give a public presentation …-esteem. The aversion to public speaking greatly reduces for daughters of working women. From data obtained through an on …

2001, women's employment participation across South Asian countries has been low and broadly unchanged; (ii) the gender … employment gap emerges more clearly in middle age brackets; (iii) rural female employment is higher than urban; (iv) agriculture … countries, and; (v) women with mid-level education tend to have lower employment rates than those with both lower and higher …

This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of … capabilities across a range of dimensions are then developed for some 6000 women and used to estimate a number of propensity score …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …

Modern women often face an uneasy choice: dedicating their time to reproductive household work, or joining the …-trivial costs, and necessarily involve some trade-offs, influencing the general feeling of happiness women experience given their … decision. The trade-offs are especially pronounced in traditional developing countries, where both the pressure for women to …