unemployment concerns, this silver lining speaks to a broader pathology whereby women are assumed dovish. These notable findings … help explain women's absence from public-facing central bank positions …

institutions. This article investigates what factors drive the gender balance in central bank boards. I document the lack diversity … of central bank leadership and argue that it reflects the low priority attached to the gender ratio, given the high value … existence of networks that support women's rise and the governance of the central bank. The analysis uses new panel data that …

We construct a new dataset on the presence of women on central bank monetary policy committees for a set of 103 … countries, over the period 2002-2016. We document an increasing share of women in monetary policy committees, which is mainly … associated with a higher overall presence of women in central banks and less so with other institutional factors or country …

gender wage gaps, and lower informal women's employment compared to men's. Finally, the effects are also larger for …We study the effects of monetary policy shocks on employment gender gaps in a panel of 22 countries using quarterly … data from 1990 to 2019. Our results show that men's employment falls more than women's after contractionary monetary policy …