This study aims to understand women's engagement in economic activities in rural Honduras and why these activities may … not be accurately reflected in official statistics. The study finds that women underreport their engagement in economic … percentage points. Two main explanations are found. First, women identify themselves (and are identified) primarily as housewives …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women …'s outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality …. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant negative consequences of legal gender discrimination on women …

are more likely to own property than women. Within countries, gender gaps are most pronounced for groups that are already … property ownership by women, especially housing. These results suggest that reforms to establish a more gender …Women's property ownership matters for their well-being and agency; it can also advance economic prosperity and promote …

integration measures on gender employment and wages. The study incorporates gender-differentiated employment and wages for … green trade sectors. This is the first major attempt to develop a gender-differentiated data set for South Asian countries …, within the widely used Global Trade Analysis Project framework, to examine the nexus between trade, green economy, and gender …

This paper proposes a new decomposition method to understand how gender pay gaps arise within firms. The method … differences in the positions for which men and women were hired account for 77 percent of today's average salary difference …

The role of employer discrimination in widening labor market differences between men and women has been hypothesized … and investigated in different settings. Using a field experiment, this paper examines the presence and magnitude of gender … pairs of male and female resumes in response to online job advertisements. On average, women were 2.4 percentage points more …