micro-level evidence on gender differences among MFI employees and MFIs' relation to economic development. We use a unique … panel dataset of employees from Latin America's largest MFI to show that gender gaps favouring men for promotion exist … primarily in the sales division, while there is a significant gender wage gap in the administrative division. Among loan …

identify household and commune characteristics and emphasize how the effects of these characteristics vary by gender. The … gender differences we find suggest that unequal treatment of girls within their households has a negative impact on their … educational attainment and that in the absence of such unequal treatment the reverse gender gap would be even larger. We find …

causal effect of legislator gender in a regression discontinuity design. We identify significantly higher growth in economic …

trained workforce hinders further feminization. The paper concludes with recommendations for promoting gender equality in …