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 …

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 …, preferences, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the ability of female managers. Disentangling these theories would … require data on productivity, on the preferences of those who interact with managers, and on perceptions of productivity …

large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line managers, we find that several key dimensions of managerial quality …