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

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 …

Gender relations are a key institution governing important aspects of production and reproduction of societies. They … heterogeneity in gender inequality in formal and informal social institutions. The literature on long‐term drivers of gender gaps … suggests that those gender gaps are related to long‐standing and regularly reproduced gender norms and values related to …

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 … humanities. This gender disparity is not driven by gender specific differences in mathematical ability, as the gap remains large …

's two gender-related indicators: the Gender-related Development Index and the Gender Empowerment Measure. While supporting … the need for gender-related development measures, the paper argues that there are serious conceptual and empirical …