study examines the relationship in the case of women in top executive jobs and on boards of directors. We use data for the … 2500 largest Danish firms observed during the period 1993-shy;2001 and find that the proportion of women in top management … and direction of causality. The results show that the positive effects of women in top management depend on the …

apply a new ‘flow’ measure of ‘missing women’ to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries … of missing women are confirmed. The one finding that remains and deserves further attention is some evidence of gender …. Contrary to the existing literature, they find that the problem of gender bias in mortality is as severe among adults as it is …

In this paper the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is constructed with Principal Component Analysis (PCA …) and Partial Least Squares (PLS). Using the SIGI, we test the effects of social institutions related to gender inequality … weighting procedures using PCA and PLS. We find that gender inequality in social institutions has significant effect on …

This paper examines the influence of religion on female participation to the labor market using data relative to women … determinants of the probability of being employed rather than jobless in a LOGIT framework. The results show that women belonging …-active women, we find that there are small differences between them in the case of the Orthodox and Muslim women, while active …

Since their inception in 1995, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Gender-Related Development Index (GDI …) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) have been criticized on conceptual and empirical grounds. In 2005-6, the UNDP's Human … adjusting the recommendations, making concrete proposals for two gender-related indicators, and presenting illustrative results …

reasons for such excess female mortality in the country. In this study, we argue that intra-household gender-discrimination in … current intra-household gender-disparities in getting medical care at least for life threatening illnesses. …

tended to reduce (not to increase) the gender wage gap: in fact, women have benefited both of changes in the degree of wage … rates (at over 80%), the unconditional gender gap in log hourly wages has increased by a half, while that in log of net and … suggests that the deterioration of women wages is caused by negative changes in observed characteristics (due to horizontal …

The purpose of this study is to present new evidence on the relationship between gender diversity in management and … period 1994-2003, the analysis suggests that the proportion of women in top management jobs has from none to positive … influence on firm performance. However, the results show that the strength of the effects of women in top management depends on …

Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment … (proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using the most recent data and investigating … analysis to employment gaps using panel data. We find that gender gaps in education and employment considerably reduce economic …