the U.S. labor market. Our findings suggest that a gender-specific mechanism in the Swedish labor market hinders women …

The paper proceeds from the assumption that the inequalities of opportunity between men and women on the labor market …, structural and ideological barriers are identified as the reasons for this severe underrepresentation of women. Increasing the … percentage of women in management positions in the private sector would still require the support of upper-level (male …

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 …

characteristics. We find strong differences between men and women in assortativity. While positive assortative matching in job … on job-to-unemployment and job-to-self-employment transitions reveals a lower employer's willingness to retain women …. Overall, we find strong evidence of glass-ceilings in certain firms preventing women to climb the carrier ladder and pushing …

conclusions show that some of the factors that influence women career paths are discrimination, motherhood, glass-ceiling, double …

Considering the increasing number of women entering the accounting profession, it is timely to explore the inequalities … that still exist and consider what policy processes continue to forge inequalities between men and women. Through a … dynamics that have shaped inequalities between men and women, presenting both the employee and employer perspectives of …