We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men … over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation … industry structure. For a given change in the exposure to automation across commuting zones, women were more likely than men to …

This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage inequality - gender … gender. A reduction in tariffs induces more productive firms to modernize their technology and enter the export market. New … relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …

distort incentives to mask across gender. Consistent with the framework, a survey reveals that students anticipate that female … sizable fraction of the gender gap in masking …

This paper combines personnel records of the U.S. federal government with census data to study how shocks to the gender … composition of a large organization can persistently shift gender norms. Exploiting city-by-department variation in the sudden … and horizontal transmission of gender norms and highlight how increasing gender representation within the public sector …

employment discrimination against U.S. women. For the next 15 years, the gender gap in median earnings among full-time, full … different research designs to show that women's relative wages grew rapidly in the aftermath of this legislation. The data show … little evidence of short-term changes in women's employment, but some results suggest that firms reduced their hiring and …

Women earn less than men, and that is especially true of mothers relative to fathers. Much of the widening occurs after … together these three produce the "parental gender gap," defined as the difference in income between mothers and fathers. We … up and as women work more hours, the motherhood penalty is greatly reduced, especially for the less-educated group. But …

, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … it is not publicly available - in particular, data on racial, ethnic, and gender disparities within specific companies … measure the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of company workforces. We use predictive tools based on both names and …

, prioritizing women when hiring for leadership positions. We establish that misperceptions of gender norms are pervasive across the … action, particularly among women, and underestimate support for basic rights. We provide evidence of gender stereotyping and … gender policies that are not necessarily favored by women themselves …