nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and economists. Third, the gender gap in STEM jobs depends heavily on how one defines STEM …. One traditional definition shows that STEM jobs are 76% male, but most task-based definitions show gender gaps only half …

during the hiring process. We find that the bans reduce gender pay gap by 4.2% points in hourly wages, and by 4.5% points in …. While the gender pay gap closes in the private sector, public sector gaps increase, primarily because of an increase in men …

, on the gender wage gap, and on gender disparities in career progression. Prevailing gender norms are likely to mediate …

inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …

makers when implementing policies to combat race and ethnic, and gender gaps in the labor market. …

. The strongest impact on the distribution of labour earnings would take place in countries with high gender pay gaps for … equal work and small gender gaps in employment and hours worked (mainly Central and Eastern European countries), whereas … only marginal effects are identified in countries with large gaps in hours worked and gender segregation in the type of …

marginalized castes, the probability of joblessness is about 10%. Lockdown is expected to have raised the economic inequality by … gender and needs commensurate interventions. …

changes in unemployment and shifts in attitudes toward gender roles in the labor market. The results are not immediately … effects. We find that an increase in unemployment is associated to more conservative views about gender roles in the labor … factors matter. In particular, the link between higher unemployment and more conservative views on gender roles is stronger in …

Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we … characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First …, gender gaps widened as more boys went to school, then narrowed as girls enrolled; thus, gender gaps got worse before they got …