also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender diversity diminishes over …The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce … barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all …

of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as work done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with the …We need to go beyond the accepted notions relating to the role of women in the economy and society, especially in terms … man as the breadwinner and the woman in the role of housekeeper, do not explain the contribution of women in general. We …

This study compares average earnings and productivities for men and women employed in roughly 200,000 Chinese … industrial enterprises. Women's average wages lag behind men's wages by 11%, and this result is robust to the inclusion of non …-wage income in the form of social insurance payments. The gender-wage gap is wider among workers with more than 12 years of …

We investigate skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden … 1993 to 2002.Women are more likely to have more formal education than what is normally required for their occupation … (overeducation), while men are more likely to have less (undereducation).Over- and undereducation contribute far more to the gender …

Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal … productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different … points in time. This metastudy provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage …

This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since …, practically all countries have enacted some sort of law mandating equal treatment of men and women. This paper uses a new … international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a meta-analysis of existing studies. The findings show that …

findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …