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 … countries within Latin America by their level of economics development and drawing comparisons with countries outside the region …

on an index of female agency and women's sexual and fertility preferences. Gender-targeted aid has a further positive … impact on women's sexual and fertility preferences, and more tentatively on an index focusing on gender-based violence …. However, the positive impact of gender-targeted aid disappears in patrilineal communities, and men's attitudes towards female …

This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … endogeneity issues of women’s participation in STI and innovation behavior. An upward bias of the impact of gender diversity on … innovation might arise because more dynamic and innovative managers, knowing the value of gender diversity, may also hire more …