The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce … barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all … industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women …

migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …

evaluations which are restricted to microfinance clients, we consider two more representative groups: a random sample of women … operating subsistence enterprises, and a random sample of women who are out of the labor force but interested in starting a … of follow-up surveys taken over two years and find that the short- and medium-term impacts differ. For women already in …

leadership positions reported the highest level of subjective life satisfaction. For women, no statistically significant … differences were observed among women in high-level managerial positions, women who worked in non-high-level positions, and women … who specialized in household production, with no market work. Only women who were unemployed reported lower levels of life …

This paper examines whether women benefit from working under female management using Swedish matched employer … recruit more non-managerial, high-wage women but this is primarily due to (unobserved) firm attributes rather than gender …