This paper explores the relationship between gender wage gaps and women's overall health. Using data from the 2011 …

This paper sheds light on a neglected reason for women's underrepresentation in politics: crisis-induced gender gaps in … where (individual) councilors had no role in fighting the pandemic, we provide robust evidence for a gender blame …

What explains the persistence of the gender gap? The World Economic Forum Gender Gap Index documents the persistence of … the gender gap and, more surprising yet, the data validates that in the last decade the gender gap has grown wider. Why …? We provide here a rational market explanation of the gender gap and explain why it is growing wider. We show that the …

group differences, and what mechanisms create and sustain this unequal allocation. In the sociology of gender, gender system … is large and diverse enough to measure the gender differences theorized by gender system theory and allows us to examine … whether these gender differences correspond to inequalities in funding. Critically, the data also contain a natural experiment …

The worldwide obesity epidemic has impacted women more heavily than men. These gender-based differences are … particularly pronounced in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region where gender obesity gaps on average exceed 10 percentage … points. This paper examines one of the explanations, namely the role of female empowerment on gender gaps in obesity. We …