In all Western societies women earn lower wages on average than men. The gender wage gap has existed for many years … progress made by women in the labor market, and the characteristics and causes of remaining gender inequalities. It also covers … in the labor market by men and women as well as labor market discrimination and employment segregation. It also …

provide more, or more effective, representation to women on policy issues important to the interests of women. This paper … presence of women in Congress will influence the participation of their male colleagues on legislation bearing on women …'s interests. Using fixed-effect models, preliminary findings indicate that higher levels of women in the U.S. House spur …