Gender equality is a deciding factor for economic growth in the European Union. Proportion of women on executive … committees of publicly traded companies is an important component of gender equality policies. Proportion of women on executive … could promote gender equality in all member states …

useful signal to outside stakeholders of how serious companies are about gender equality. …

Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences … striving towards gender equality, this opens up new possibilities for institutionalizing competitive pressure. …

The gender care gap, i.e., the difference between the amount of unpaid care work-such as childcare and housework … consistently when starting a family. At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, many feared that the gender care gap may … grow even larger. In fact, empirical analyses show that gender differences in care work did increase in young families at …