"Gleichstellung" wird als Geschlechterfrage begriffen, die Aussagen macht zur gegenwärtigen Machtverteilung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt, zu geschlechtsspezifischen Zugangsmöglichkeiten bzw. Hindernissen und zu den Chancen und Defiziten verschiedener Gleichstellungsansätze. Sechs...

This paper describes the very different role played by female elites in contemporary developing countries, as compared to the 'early' industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more important in business and politics in today's developing...

While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's political empowerment on children's human capital accumulation by exploiting plausibly exogenous...