the affirmative. Specifically, nations with a history of women’s suffrage, greater representation of women in the … underinvesting in initiatives to empower women. …

We explore the extent to which LIS-data can be used to shed light on the presence of women in the top of the income … distribution. We show developments of the share of women in top groups (P90-100 and P99-100) of the labour income distribution for … for the share of women in top groups with some important exceptions. Relating our findings to the existing evidence on …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … large and comparable data sets or to conventional approaches that limit the possibilities to compare men and women. …

In the recent period, the qualitative dimension of the women participation in the labor force has improved quickly, in … response to cultural and economic changes. In Brazil, many authors have pointed that women have a higher level of schooling … change if the women and men have the same chances in the job market. In this paper, we propose how to simulate this …

In the past two decades, many researchers have used the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data to analyse women's economic … have concluded that: (i) women's labour market status lags men's in nearly every LIS country and time period; (ii … men's employment rates and earnings, it weakens women's everywhere; (iii) against this backdrop of commonality, gendered …