a larger gender wage gap. In the data women with children allocate more time to household care and are penalized by … missing work during peak hours. An equilibrium model with these key elements generates a gender wage gap of 6.6 percent or … equalized across occupations and set to a relatively low value (i.e. Health care support), the gender gap would fall by more …

favorably than equally performing men. This gender gap in self-promotion is notably persistent. It stays just as strong when we …: eliminate gender differences in confidence about performance, eliminate incentives to self-promote, provide information about …-promotion opportunities, this self-promotion gap may contribute to persistent gender gaps in education and labor market outcomes …

. Most of the gender gap in STEM entry can be traced to differences in the rate of STEM readiness; less than a fifth is due … in STEM readiness among university entrants into two channels: one reflecting the gender gap in the fraction of high … females and males who enter university. The gender gap in the fraction of students with STEM prerequisites is small. The main …

of the data both qualitatively and quantitatively. We use the model to shed light on gender differences in labor market … outcomes that arise because of gender asymmetries in home production responsibilities. Our model generates large gender gaps in … ten hours per week increases the observed gender wage gap by roughly eleven percentage points and decreases the share of …

The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender … behavioral problems are also associated with labor market earnings, their associations are not significantly different by gender …. The gender differences in headstrong and dependent behavior are not explained by education, marriage, depression, self …

evidence on trends in self-employment for the US by race, ethnicity and gender. Evidence is also presented for construction … which has self-employment rates roughly double the national rates and where there are strikingly high racial and gender …