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Social Security and Gender : Brazilian and World Practices

Beltrao, Kaizo I.; Novellino, Maria S.; Barreto de … - 2002

Social security is concerned on easing the impact of contingencies that lead to capacity loss for generating income. There are, however, conceptual differences between genders with respect to social security contributions and benefits. This text is concerned with equality and specificity in the...

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Identifying and overcoming gender barriers in tech : a field experiment on inaccurate statistical discrimination

Feld, Jan; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2022

discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …

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Gender quotas in the boardroom : new evidence from Germany

Fedorets, Alexandra; Gibert, Anna; Burow, Norma - 2019

We examine the introduction of a gender quota law in Germany, mandating a minimum 30% of the underrepresented gender on the supervisory boards of a particular type of firms. We exploit the fact that Germany has a two-tier corporate system consisting of the affected supervisory boards and...

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Gender quotas in a European comparison : tough sanctions most effective

Arndt, Paula; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 38, pp. 337-344

Women remain significantly underrepresented in the top decision-making bodies in the private sector. Over the past few years, increasingly more European countries have introduced statutory gender quotas to combat this underrepresentation. Other European countries have instead relied on voluntary...

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Binding quotas can help achieve gender equality in top decision-making bodies

Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 154-155

Gender equality is a deciding factor for economic growth in the European Union. Proportion of women on executive committees of publicly traded companies is an important component of gender equality policies. Proportion of women on executive committees is significantly higher in member states...

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Financial sector : proportion of women in top decision-making bodies is increasing more slowly than at the beginning of the decade : equal gender representation is still a long way...

Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 3, pp. 32-45

Over the past year, the proportion of women serving on the executive and supervisory boards of the top 100 largest banks in Germany rose slightly to almost nine and 23 percent, respectively. However, growth has come to a halt in the 60 largest insurance companies: on both executive and...

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Should We Mind the Gap? Gender Pay Differentials and Public Policy

Shackleton, J. R. - 2009

discrimination. In fact in can be explained by variations in the kinds of job undertaken by men and women, as well as educational and …

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An International Map of Gender Gaps

Buono, Ines; Polselli, Annalivia - 2023

This paper revisits stylized facts on female labour force participation, employment and unemployment, using a unified and up-to-date dataset with comparable information for high-income (HI) and middle-low income (MLI) countries. We find that: (i) global trends in labour supply in the last 30...

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While gender quotas for top positions in the private sector differ across EU countries, they are effective overall

Kirsch, Anja; Sondergeld, Virginia; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 3/4, pp. 32-39

This second report in the DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer 2022 explores the designs and effects of gender quotas across Europe, coming to the conclusion that they are an effective instrument for increasing the share of women in top positions at large companies. Furthermore, the quotas...

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Gender diversity benefits supervisory board work of many companies

Kirsch, Anja; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 11 (2021) 3/4, pp. 32-38

Over the past years, the proportion of women on the supervisory boards of major companies in Germany has increased. As this second report in the DIW Women Executives Barometer 2021 shows, this has a meaningful, positive impact on the supervisory boards of many companies, and affects interactions...

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