This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …

for both men and women. However, there is a significant gender gap that favors men on the STEM returns. There is also a … performance of both men and women, why returns to STEM exhibit such strong gender asymmetries remains an open and relevant … labor market, according to gender, across four Latin American countries. We find that information and communication …

aiming at reducing the initial gender gap in accessing public grants for female researchers in STEM. …This study explores the presence of gender bias in public grants for science and technology (S&T) activities known as … the Matilda effect in STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in Argentina. The empirical …

findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …

We randomly assigned consumer loan requests (of random amount and length) to gender-balanced prospective-borrowers who … submitted by women are 18.3% less likely to be approved, with most of the gender effect coming from gender-biased officers … repayment rates than men and find that gender-biased officers in the treatment-group discriminated more against women relative …