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 …

A vast labor literature has found evidence of a %u201Cglass ceiling%u201D, whereby women are under-represented among … beliefs of market participants about the ability of men and women in senior management. As such, financial data hold 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 …

liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the representation of women in top positions in the … corporate sector and decrease the gender disparity in earnings within that sector. We document that the women appointed to these … the larger set of women employed in the companies subject to the quota. Moreover, the reform had no clear impact on highly …

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 …

. 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 … women in lowers ranks …