increase in the share of female top managers is associated with subsequent increases in the share of women in mid …The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and …

managers, this investigation uses firm-level evidence from the British 1998 Workplace Employment Relationship Survey (WERS 98 … female managers into specific responsibilities, are avoided in the research presented here. The results show that workplaces … where the presence of women at management is higher are driven in a more democratic fashion, with more interpersonal and …

A vast labor literature has found evidence of a glass ceiling, whereby women are under-represented among senior …, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the ability of female managers. Disentangling these theories would require … data on productivity, on the preferences of those who interact with managers, and on perceptions of productivity. Financial …

managers in predominantly female occupations are moderated by firm size. Drawing on economic and organizational approaches and … the devaluation of women's work, we find wage penalties for female occupations in management only in large firms. This …

ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling …

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

mechanics compared with leaders who were principally managers or engineers with degrees. There is a notable association between …