. One strand of the literature shows that socialism shaped also the attitude toward working women. Against the background … effect on attitudes is not visible in actual behaviour. Another novel finding is that social acceptance of working women … German women in work in pre-War Germany. The paper exemplifies that considering the pre-separation history of Germany is …

labour supply. This corresponds to a remarkable mark-up of married East German women in the labour market before German … on attitudes toward working women do not necessarily translate into meaningful East-West differences in terms of actual …

contrast, women from those same unlucky cohorts have higher employment rates and earnings. Our results are consistent with … women acting as secondary workers in downturns. We also find that women from unlucky cohorts control a larger share of …

, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is … uncounted in the current System of National Accounts definition of labour. However, women still undertake less paid work than …

analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore … beneficiaries of affirmative action in federal contracting over 1973-2003 were black and Native American women and men. Analysis of … employment shares of minorities and women at federal contractors relative to noncontracting firms occurred during the 1970s and …

Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … significant and negative effect on women's participation in paid work. We do not find any evidence that purdah norm variable …

Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … significant and negative effect on women's participation in paid work. We do not find any evidence that purdah norm variable …

What are the effects on the labor market and aggregate income of frictions that restrict women's labor decisions that … impede labor participation and composition being equal between men and women? To answer this question, I develop an … increase by 4.3% without women's restrictions to entrepreneurship and by 32.1% without restrictions to entry and …

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 examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia …