The relationship between occupational gender composition and wages is the basis of pay equity/comparable worth … occupational gender segregation in Canada and its consequences for wages. The sample period precedes many provincial pay equity … heterogeneity across worker groups on average, the link between female wages and gender composition is small and not statistically …

In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards …

mechanism for promoting diversity. We show that representation, on its own, is not sufficient for selecting gender diversity: a …

In spring 2005, Austria launched a campaign to inform employers and newspapers that gender preferences in job … advertisements were illegal. At the time over 40% of openings on the nation's largest job-board specified a preferred gender. Over … how the elimination of gender preferences affected hiring and job outcomes. Prior to the campaign, most stated preferences …

We study the effects of peer gender composition, a proxy for female-friendliness of environment, in STEM doctoral … programs on persistence and degree completion. Leveraging unique new data and quasi-random variation in gender composition … the probability of on-time graduation for women by 4.6pp. These gender peer effects function primarily through changes in …

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

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 …