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Gender Quotas and Women's Political Leadership
O'Brien, Diana Z.; Rickne, Johanna Karin - 2014
Though more than 100 countries have adopted gender quotas, the impacts of these reforms on women’s political leadership remain largely unknown. We exploit a quasi-experiment — a zipper quota imposed by the Swedish Social Democratic national party on municipal party groups — to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014142248
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Female Representation but Male Rule? Party Competition and the Political Glass Ceiling
Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna Karin - 2012
numbers to study the drivers of a gender gap in political influence among elected politicians. Using panel data for the … careers of 35.000 Swedish municipal politicians over six election cycles we first document the said gender gap. Women are … meritocracy is not enforced. Positive correlations between competition and measures of competence for elected politicians of both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014163531
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Female representation but male rule? : party competition and the political glass ceiling
Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna - 2012
numbers to study the drivers of a gender gap in political influence among elected politicians. Using panel data for the … careers of 35.000 Swedish municipal politicians over six election cycles we first document the said gender gap. Women are … meritocracy is not enforced. Positive correlations between competition and measures of competence for elected politicians of both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009617936
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Are women breaking the glass ceiling? : a gendered analysis of the duration of sick leave in Spain
Martín-Román, Ángel L.; Moral de Blas, Alfonso; … - 2022
We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days - those which are related to biological characteristics and those derived from behavioral reasons. Using the Statistics of Accidents at Work for 2011-2019, we found that women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254239
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Are women breaking the glass ceiling? : a gendered analysis of the duration of sick leave in Spain
Martín-Román, Ángel L.; Moral de Blas, Alfonso; … - In: International journal of health economics and management 24 (2024) 1, pp. 107-134
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Is my wage fair? : validating fairness perceptions among women and men
Diehl, Claudia; Lang, Julia; Strauß, Susanne; … - 2024
This paper examines gender differences in perceptions of the fairness of one's own pay. Theoretically, we draw on two so far separate strands of literature, on women's alleged greater tolerance for lower wages ("contented female worker paradox"), and on perceived discrimination among ethnic...
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50 years of breakthroughs and barriers : women in economics, policy, and leadership
Blau, Francine D.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2024
This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher education at the college level and beyond and then go on to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062106
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Women in power and power of women : the Liberian experience
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
Do women really improve conditions for gender equality after becoming heads of states? This study investigates if having a woman at the helm of country's decision making processes leads to better indicators on women conditions. Using time series observations for the period 2000-2011, we test the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408493
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Closing the gender gap in leadership Positions : can expanding the pipeline increase parity?
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2018
effect is driven by new candidates and not by career politicians, and women receive a disproportionately favorable increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785770
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Do Relative Disadvantages in College Reinforce Women's Glass Ceiling?
Ribas, Rafael P. - 2020
Worldwide, women remain underrepresented in management roles, and the environment in which women are professionally trained seems to matter. This study exploits a setting where college students are split into two groups based on entry-level scores. Throughout college, students in the same group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840344