men or women depending on their entry position. Third, for the most common entry-level professional position (known as …

This paper studies the effects of policies aimed at mitigating discrimination against women in the marketplace on the … inversely with the presence of skilled women (as agents of change) in the labor market and has a direct impact on their … presence of skilled women in the labor market, a trade-off may emerge with respect to female unemployment when anti …

of occupational segregation, the program had a surprising effect. For women who at baseline were implicitly biased … against associating women with professional attributes, the likelihood that the program induced switching into the information … and communications technology sector was more than three times as large than that of unbiased women. These results suggest …

individuals and communities. In economic development, the concept has come to mean women's power and agency in all economic … research by economists, primarily involving impact evaluation, has measured empowerment as women's influence over household …

Several studies explore the differences in men?s and women?s labor market participation rates and wages. Some of these … among women relative to men in the country. The paper combines the literature on women?s careers in management, which has … proportion of female top managers also have higher enrollment rates for women relative to men in primary, secondary, and tertiary …

Improving women's agency, namely their ability to define goals and act on them, is crucial for advancing gender … equality and the empowerment of women. Yet, existing frameworks for women's agency measurement -- both disorganized and partial … -- provide a fragmented understanding of the constraints women face in exercising their agency, restricting the design of quality …

and identifies several factors that have altered the bargaining position of men and women over the last decades. It then … reviews empirical work on the contribution of men, as fathers and husbands, to the health and socioeconomic outcomes of women … focus on men rather than exclusively target women …

This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine … how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a … novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked to classical theories of power, built from spouses' often …

This paper reviews empirical findings from economic analyses of the role of gender equality and women's empowerment in … range of development outcomes, the paper presents evidence on the impact of women's access to markets (labor, land, and … credit) and women's decision-making power within households on poverty reduction and productivity at the individual and …

discriminate against women influence their engagement in the economy. The study adopts a holistic approach, exploring an overall … measure of unequal laws also known as legal gender disparities, and relates it to several labor market outcomes for women …. Using data for more than 60,000 firms across 104 economies, the study finds that unequal laws not only discourage women …