We study shareholder support for corporate board nominees in the context of the California gender quota, which was …

In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of public limited … corporate sector and decrease the gender disparity in earnings within that sector. We document that the women appointed to these … boards post-reform were observably more qualified than their female predecessors along many dimensions, and that the gender …

Democratic CEOs associated with a significant reduction (or even disappearance) of the gender gap in the level and performance …

. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …

We study the relation between gender and job performance among brokerage firm equity analysts. Women's representation …

high-profile Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination trial had dramatic treatment effects. In difference …

industries with more women, but gender differences are ameliorated when women have access to adjudicating institutions, such as … local institutional quality in an adapted trust game, and find that this also reduces the gender gap in trust and economic …

Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities … institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. Our analyses make use of institutional level panel data that we have … role in faculty hiring decisions. A critical share of female trustees must be reached before the gender composition of the …

We exploit random assignment of gender quotas across Indian village councils to investigate whether having a female …. However, it weakens stereotypes about gender roles in the public and domestic spheres and eliminates the negative bias in how …