that female leadership has a positive impact at the top of the female wage distribution and a negative impact at the bottom …. Moreover, the impact of female leadership on firm performance increases with the share of female workers. Our empirical … costs of under-representation of women at the top of the corporate hierarchy …

a comparative advantage at violence and there is little rule-of-law, then unequal bargaining power can lead women to … entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and … industries with more women, but gender differences are ameliorated when women have access to adjudicating institutions, such as …

and women to become board nominees, and that it did not lead to new female board nominees being of lower quality than male …

for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …

through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher …This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break … education at the college level and beyond and then go on to examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia …

) and sustainability reporting. To frame our analysis, we consider a widespread mandatory adoption of CSR reporting … number of insights that are relevant to the current debate on CSR and sustainability reporting and provides scholars with …