Do women really improve conditions for gender equality after becoming heads of states? This study investigates if …

Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically … women to a career pipeline can reduce gender gaps in higher-ranking positions over time. Specifically, we examine the … 2014. We use close elections won by women contesting state legislature seats to identify the effect of pipeline expansion …

Discontinuity design for close mayoral elections between female and male candidates in Brazil, we find that electing female mayors … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of … suggests that female mayors might implement different policies from male mayors and therefore contribute to reduce gender …

and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to …This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …