-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This chapter summarizes this research. We argue … that women's under-representation is concentrated in the math-intensive science fields of geosciences, engineering … affecting women and men as they progress through school, higher education, and into the labor market. Our results are consistent …

an increase in the median time to remarriage of 3.5 years. Among older women and women with children, this effect is … substantially greater. This indicates that women were willing to substitute away from marriage if the alternatives were favorable … enough, suggesting that changes in the desirability of marriage to women may account for some of the aggregate patterns of …

life expectancy at birth is around four to six years (seven in Japan). But have women always lived so much longer than men … and 25. Both males and females lived longer as the burden of infectious disease fell, but women were more greatly impacted …. Our explanation does not tell us why women live longer than men, but it does help understand the timing of their relative …

women's creativity within the nonmarket household sector and outside the patent system. The analysis distinguishes between … women, especially nonpatentees, were significantly more likely than men to be associated with innovations in consumer final … goods and design-oriented products at the boundary of art and technology. Even those who did not commercialize their …

technology was a major part of the government response. The U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) led a major …

estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on …

This paper deals with the effects of labor and transfer incomes as determinants of older women's labor force … participation. It examines the responsiveness of women aged 48-62 to the level of income available from both work and public … of disability-related transfers affects the labor supply of these women. A maximum-likelihood model is estimated …

application of adult women's decisions to undertake mammography to evaluate the importance of present bias and naivety in the …