U.S. educational and occupational wage differentials were exceptionally high at the dawn of the twentieth century and … combined with fluctuations in the growth of relative skill supplies go far to explain the long-run evolution of U.S …

including publicly funded mass education that was open and forgiving, academic yet practical, secular, gender neutral, and …

, importantly influence the gender pay gap. Declining gender differentials in the U.S., and the more rapid closing of the gender pay … gap in the U.S. than elsewhere, appear to be primarily due to gender-specific factors. However, the relatively large … gender pay gap in the U.S. compared to a number of other advanced countries seems primarily attributable to the very high …

The relationship between occupational gender composition and wages is the basis of pay equity/comparable worth … legislation. A number of previous studies have examined this relationship in US data, identifying some of the determinants of low … occupational gender segregation in Canada and its consequences for wages. The sample period precedes many provincial pay equity …

regions of the U.S. We use this data set to re-examine the question of the relative contributions to the overall sex gap in …

's impact on the labor market. Another notable finding is the central role of telecommuting: gender gaps in the employment … telecommuters a different kind of gender gap arises: women working from home during the pandemic spent more work time also doing … childcare and experienced greater productivity reductions than men. We discuss what our findings imply for gender equality in a …

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

This paper investigates the link between gender and crime using information from a gender-based lockdown policy in … other cities and, within Bogota, the gender-based lockdown period to weeks with other lockdown policies. Our key findings … are that crime rates are higher during the gender-based lockdown policy and that this is driven by more crime involving …

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 …