industries with more women, but gender differences are ameliorated when women have access to adjudicating institutions, such as … 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 …

earning power and education across genders, married women often found themselves in an economically vulnerable position, and … women. To investigate this idea, we build and estimate an equilibrium search model with education, marriage …/divorce/remarriage, and household labor supply decisions. A key feature of the model is that women bear a larger share of the divorce burden …

The economic downturn caused by the current COVID-19 outbreak has substantial implications for gender equality, both … severely than women's employment, the employment drop related to social distancing measures has a large impact on sectors with … forces which may ultimately promote gender equality in the labor market. First, businesses are rapidly adopting flexible work …

that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in … household production and fertility is high. In an intermediate phase, women have increasing opportunities to earn a living … increased opportunity cost in women's foregone wages with no decrease in time allocated to childcare. We see the lowest …

The modern economic role of women emerged in four phases. The first three were evolutionary; the last was revolutionary … women's choices distinguish the evolutionary from the revolutionary phases: horizon, identity, and decision-making. The … time-series evidence on women's more predictable attachment to the workplace, greater identity with career, and better …

corporate sector and decrease the gender disparity in earnings within that sector. We document that the women appointed to these …In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of public limited … liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the representation of women in top positions in the …

Women remain disadvantaged in access to management positions around the world. We conduct a field experiment with 24 … large garment factories in Bangladesh to test for inefficient representation of women among line supervisors. We identify … factories at baseline. This suggests that factories previously promoted fewer women than would have been optimal. Additional …

positive gender spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within …This paper studies gender spillovers in career advancement using 11 years of employer-employee matched data on the …. We first find that women have significantly lower promotion rates than men across all ranks of the corporate hierarchy …

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 …

(usually full-time) to maintain access to health insurance coverage. We study employed married women, newly diagnosed with … breast cancer, comparing labor supply responses to breast cancer diagnoses between women dependent on their own employment … for health insurance and women with access to health insurance through their spouse's employer. We find evidence that …