This survey argues that after decades of continuous progress in reducing gender inequality in developing and developed … countries, since about 2000, there has been an unexpected stagnation and regress in many dimensions of gender inequality in many … parts of the world. This is most visible in labor markets, but also visible across a range of dimensions of gender …

Occupational and sectoral segregation by gender is remarkably persistent across space and time and is a major … contributor to gender wage gaps. We investigate the determinants of one-digit occupational and sectoral segregation in developing … education levels, either overall or for females relative to males, tends to increase rather than decrease segregation. …

This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We …

This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We …

This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the post-secondary level of … longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of … study stream at the higher-secondary level of education. A household fixed effects regression shows that girls are 20 …

In 2005 and 2006, the Human Development Report Office undertook a review of UNDP's gender-related indicators …, particularly the Gender-Related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). Background papers as well as the … the two gender-related indicators and by presenting illustrative results for these proposed measures. The most important …

Development database. Instead of measuring gender inequalities in education, health, economic or political participation, these …In this paper we construct the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and its five subindices Family code, Civil … liberties, Physical integrity, Son Preference and Ownership rights using variables of the OECD Gender, Institutions and …

yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow of missing women’, suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …

yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of missing women', suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …

Given the demographic structure of the population of the European countries, this paper examines how gender gaps in … only on the existing gender gaps but also on the way how they are jointly distributed across the income distribution. Using … the 2010 EU-SILC data, we propose a novel methodology that allows assessing the way in which gender gaps in income per …