' underlying gender preferences are highly job-specific, with many firms requesting men for some jobs and women for others, and …

segregation was reduced over the 1970-2009 period was through the entry of new cohorts of women, presumably better prepared than …

I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men … women dissatisfied with pay and promotion opportunities. Contrary to the existing literature, I find that family … of other fields once women's relatively high exit rates from male fields generally is taken into account. …

strongest finding is that among plants with high levels of product market power, those that employ relatively more women are …

-employed individuals, we find robust evidence that women in Italy pay more for overdraft facilities than men. We could not find any … evidence that women are riskier then men. The male/female differential remains even after controlling for a large number of … characteristics of the type of business, the borrower and the market structure of the credit market. The result is not driven by women …

find empirical support for prejudice-based explanations. Despite receiving less treatment, women and blacks receive …