The female share in management positions is quite low in Germany. The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women … there are in such positions. Men have numerous role models to follow whereas women lack this opportunity: In the executive …-neutral environment outside and inside companies in order to enforce equal career opportunities for women and men. …

in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as … underrepresentation of women, namely, gender differences in overconfidence concerning past performance, in the willingness to exaggerate …

female labor forces. We also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender …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 …

also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender diversity diminishes over …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 …

unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child …

Our goal in this paper is to focus on highly educated men and women and try to explore the trade-offs between family … main determinant of the observed gap in labor supply between college men and women. Furthermore, with respect to hours … women. …