Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality in society. In this paper, using newly … collected nationally representative datasets from 60 countries that cover over 80% of the world population, we study gender …, prioritizing women when hiring for leadership positions. We establish that misperceptions of gender norms are pervasive across the …

differ only in their gender. Jobs recommended uniquely to the male and female profiles in a pair differ modestly in their … more stereotypically female content than men's. Using our experimental design, we can conclude that these gender gaps are … generated primarily by content-based matching algorithms that use the worker's declared gender as a direct input. Action …

Using thousands of essays written by 11-year-olds in 1969, we construct an index measuring girls' conformity to gender … less to gender norms live in regions with higher female employment and university attendance, highlighting the role of the …

The distribution of parental leave uptake and childcare activities continues to conform to traditional gender roles. In … 2002, with the goal of increasing gender equality, Sweden added a second "daddy month," i.e., an additional month of pay … after the reform by gender and household type (the parents' education). We find that changed incentives and, especially …

This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes in India, a setting where discrimination … against women and girls is severe. We use survey data on gender attitudes (specifically, views about the appropriate roles and … likely to hold the view. As a benchmark, classmates' average gender attitudes have a similar effect size. We find that …

This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive … behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially …-cognitive returns to parental inputs differ markedly by gender. Broken families are associated with worse parental inputs and boys' non …

Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … datasets show insignificant gender differentials in access to employer-subsidized child care and access to scheduling …

study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our … attached to promotions, and relatively few studies on gender differences have considered promotions and wage increases together … there is essentially no gender difference in wage growth with or without promotions …

wages, the gender wage gap and the gender composition of employment. The focus is the pay equity initiative of the Canadian …