result, women's suffrage exacerbated racial inequality in education expenditures and substantially delayed relative gains in …

We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in …

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 …

men's educational or family outcomes. The results are quite different for women: we find effects on both career and family … outcomes. Attending a school with a 100-point higher average SAT score increases women's probability of advanced degree …. The effect of college selectivity on own earnings is significantly larger for married than for single women. Among married …

. 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 …

-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This chapter summarizes this research. We argue … that women's under-representation is concentrated in the math-intensive science fields of geosciences, engineering … affecting women and men as they progress through school, higher education, and into the labor market. Our results are consistent …

We consider the role that workplace attributes play in accounting for the divergence in the careers of women and men … the penalty to wage rates earned by women with their transition to motherhood (i.e., the motherhood penalty), but it would …

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 …