This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break … through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher … education at the college level and beyond and then go on to examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia …

Based on a sample of 467 asset managers from four countries we robustly find that women manage smaller funds than men …

of decision making? We analyze survey responses of 649 fund managers in the U.S., Germany, Italy and Thailand, and find … competition in the tournament scenario. The expected lower degree of overconfidence by women is yet so small that it becomes …

among board members can improve firm performance, but women on boards are much less connected than men. In this paper, we … male) board members improve bank profitability and reduce earnings management; (2) connections of women on important board … committees also improve performance – especially when the share of women on the board is relatively high (above the median) …