Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be …

a larger gender wage gap. In the data women with children allocate more time to household care and are penalized by … missing work during peak hours. An equilibrium model with these key elements generates a gender wage gap of 6.6 percent or … equalized across occupations and set to a relatively low value (i.e. Health care support), the gender gap would fall by more …

favorably than equally performing men. This gender gap in self-promotion is notably persistent. It stays just as strong when we …: eliminate gender differences in confidence about performance, eliminate incentives to self-promote, provide information about …-promotion opportunities, this self-promotion gap may contribute to persistent gender gaps in education and labor market outcomes …

In this paper, we exploit new data to assess gender differences in pre-labor market specialization among the college … educated and highlight how those differences have evolved over time. We highlight new results pertaining to gender differences … indices in potential wage space that measure gender differences in major choice and separately the subsequent occupational …

Gender differences in current and past job tasks may be crucial for understanding the gender wage gap. We use novel …-occupation gender differences in tasks. We find that unique measures of task-specific experience, in particular high-skilled information …. Highlighting the importance of these measures, traditional work-related proxies for gender differences in human capital …

Gender differences in the propensity to negotiate are often used to explain the gender wage gap, popularizing the push …

This paper presents a theory where increases in female labor force participation and reductions in the gender wage …. It generates changes in fertility, labor market attachment, and the gender wage-gap as part of a single process of social …

study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our … attached to promotions, and relatively few studies on gender differences have considered promotions and wage increases together … there is essentially no gender difference in wage growth with or without promotions …

the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce …

Research on sex differences in humans documents gender differences in sensory, motor and spatial aptitudes. These … of gender based occupational segregation by 20-23 percent in 1970 and 2012. Eliminating selection on DOT variables …