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 …

empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all … - rising as infections mounted and declining as the first wave flattened - overall, the pandemic did not exacerbate gender gaps …

In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces …. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then … discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the rise in female employment, namely the rise of the service economy …

We investigate differences in earnings penalties associated with working from home (WFH) between groups of gender and …

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 …

how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We …

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 …

how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We …