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Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of promoting a worker to a fast-track job depends not only on his or her observable talent, but also on incontractible effort. We investigate whether self-fulfilling expectations may lead to higher promotion standards for women. If...
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This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to … promotes gender equality. Despite recent progress, gender gaps remain across all stages of life, including before birth, and … negatively impact health, education, and economic outcomes for women. The roadmap to gender equality has to rely on legal …
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and we present new evidence that a UK academic diversity programme (Athena Swan) has narrowed the gender pay gap at a …
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We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has …
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