Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities … institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. We use institutional level panel data that we have collected for a large … administrators play a larger role in faculty hiring decisions. A critical share of female trustees must be reached before the gender …

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for … women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens? approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss … constitution as a proxy for the norm that ?women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value?. We find that …

Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … gender differentials. However, the magnitude of their effects varies across countries. …

men and women. We find that, first, gender pay gaps are typically bigger at the top of the wage distribution, a finding …Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages … distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap …

. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the …Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …

This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of … when we control for municipality fixed effects as well as non-random sorting of women into municipalities using regression … discontinuity in gender-mixed electoral races decided by a narrow margin. The likelihood that a female mayor survives until the end …

The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point … where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper …

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …

We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent. Overall, the results are consistent … with statistical discrimination explanations of the gender wage gap, though we cannot rule out other forms of …