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

incumbent conditions in 2000-2005. The results highlight that the traits of business owners in incumbent industrial structures …

A vast labor literature has found evidence of a "glass ceiling", whereby women are under-represented among senior … participants about the ability of men and women in senior management. As such, financial data hold the promise of potentially …

Commerce requires trust, but trust is difficult when one group consistently fears expropriation by another. If men have … 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 …

for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers …Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success, and is the constraint stronger … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a …

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 …

. We first find that women have significantly lower promotion rates than men across all ranks of the corporate hierarchy … positive gender spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within … ranks suggests that policies that increase female representation in corporate leadership can have spillover benefits to …

, namely, that CeMENT expanded the collaboration networks of the participants. Our analysis finds that women who received the …Previous research has shown that women in the treatment group of the CeMENT randomized controlled trial increased their … mentoring treatment had three additional pre-tenure coauthors, 1.6 more pre-tenure publications and 43 additional citations to …

The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States …. However, many states extended full or partial suffrage to women before the federal amendment. In this paper, we discuss the … history of women's enfranchisement using an economic lens. We examine the demand-side, discussing the rise of the women …