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André, Christophe; Bourrousse, Hugo - 2017

Sweden ranks among the best OECD countries in terms of gender equality. Women have a high employment rate, outperform men in education and are well represented in government and parliament. Nevertheless, without further policy measures, achieving parity is still a distant prospect in several...

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(Un)Equal Protection : Why Gender Equality Depends on Discrimination

Cunningham-Parmeter, Keith - 2016

discrimination. But while the Court famously invalidated several sex-based laws at the end of the twentieth century, it also issued … long-ignored cases that approved of sex discrimination, this Article explains how the Court's rulings in this area have … equal protection that authorizes certain forms of sex discrimination, (Un)Equal Protection advocates for one particular …

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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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Marriage Equality, Workplace Inequality : The Next Gay Rights Battle

Cunningham-Parmeter, Keith - 2021

renewed attention to the argument that sexual orientation discrimination constitutes a form of sex discrimination. The … orientation discrimination and sex discrimination. By combating discrimination in employment, housing, and other civil rights …

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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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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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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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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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Women on high-level boards of banks and insurance companies : growth coming to a standstill on supervisory boards

Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 3, pp. 33-45

The proportion of women on executive boards of the 100 largest banks stagnated at almost nine percent in 2018. In the 60 largest insurance companies, the proportion increased by a good percentage point to almost ten percent. While growth on executive boards has been weakening in past years, it...

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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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