We examine whether women and men of the same ability differ in their decisions to seek challenges. In the laboratory … performance, men choose the hard task about 50 percent more frequently than women, independent of performance level. Gender … choice high performing women choose the hard task significantly more often, at a rate now similar to the decision of men …

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

The modern economic role of women emerged in four phases. The first three were evolutionary; the last was revolutionary … women's choices distinguish the evolutionary from the revolutionary phases: horizon, identity, and decision-making. The … time-series evidence on women's more predictable attachment to the workplace, greater identity with career, and better …

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

earning power and education across genders, married women often found themselves in an economically vulnerable position, and … women. To investigate this idea, we build and estimate an equilibrium search model with education, marriage …/divorce/remarriage, and household labor supply decisions. A key feature of the model is that women bear a larger share of the divorce burden …

Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the American … participants, the results suggest that this type of mentoring may be one way to help women advance in the Economics profession and …

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

in regions with less favorable attitudes towards working women. The evidence is suggestive that female mayors are less … able at fostering cooperation among men, or alternatively, that men are more reluctant to be headed by women. Other … women in leadership positions …