-intensive fields among women is a worthy goal, then understanding whether women's colleges causally affect that choice is important … college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …

sector and address high levels of unemployment, particularly among women and the youth. This paper explores how one such … doubled the share of women in treated firms. Importantly, we find that these short-term effects persisted for at least three …

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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 …

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 …