. We first find that women have significantly lower promotion rates than men across all ranks of the corporate hierarchy … positive gender spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within … ranks suggests that policies that increase female representation in corporate leadership can have spillover benefits to …

We consider the role that workplace attributes play in accounting for the divergence in the careers of women and men … the penalty to wage rates earned by women with their transition to motherhood (i.e., the motherhood penalty), but it would …

for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …

Recent college graduate women express frustration regarding the obstacles they will face in combining career and family …. Tracing the demographic and labor force experiences of four cohorts of college women across the past century allows us to … observe the choices each made and how the constraints facing college women loosened over time. No cohort of college graduate …

relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …

predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may … weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force … overcome these problems, we provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected Indian …

We study the relation between gender and job performance among brokerage firm equity analysts. Women's representation … in analyst positions drops from 16% in 1995 to 13% in 2005. We find women cover roughly 9 stocks on average compared to … 10 for men. Women's earnings estimates tend to be less accurate. After controlling for forecast characteristics, the …

a comparative advantage at violence and there is little rule-of-law, then unequal bargaining power can lead women to … entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and … industries with more women, but gender differences are ameliorated when women have access to adjudicating institutions, such as …

professional ambition and tendency for leadership. Neither men nor non-single women changed their answers in response to peer …Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions could signal personality traits, like ambition … they believed their classmates would not see their responses, single and non-single women answered similarly. However …