prioritization of leader competence over gender, boosting the share of women among candidates and state parliamentarians and the … other traits, such as gender? We answer this question by examining the impact of a successful school-expansion program on … the likelihood of women being elected to state legislatures in India. We show that the program increased voter …

The aid allocation literature has neglected gender-specific needs for aid. We assess the hypothesis that gender … inequality in education is more likely to affect the aid allocation of donor countries with female leadership in the relevant … ministry. We find no evidence for a needs-based allocation of aid for education. Female as well as male leaders appear to have …

education at the college level and beyond and then go on to examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia …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 …

Women continue to be underrepresented in corporate leadership positions. This paper studies the role of social … connections in women's career advancement. We investigate whether access to a larger share of female peers in business school … affects the gender gap in senior managerial positions. Merging administrative data from a top-10 U.S. business school with …

Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities … institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. We use institutional level panel data that we have collected for a large … administrators play a larger role in faculty hiring decisions. A critical share of female trustees must be reached before the gender …

relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the influence of social contexts such as networks, family and household … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography … gendered, reflecting local institutions such as accepted gender norms which may "force" women into specific industries or …

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they … face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women … technology and markets, and contextual factors such as legal and regulatory constraints, social norms, access to care, and gender …

service. Three empirical findings emerge: First, the overall employment size of women-owned businesses shrank more than men …-owned businesses after the pandemic outbreak; second, women were more likely than men to cut personal expenditures and use government … service areas of both incumbents and entrants shrinking over time. These results have implications for policies on women …

Restrictions in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic have affected and continue to affect the operations of … development in the various sectors and provides an overview of the support measures. Based on the specifics of women's businesses …, first answers will be given to the question whether women entrepreneurs and the businesses they run are particularly …

propensities between men and women. The consequences of the assumed differential importance of household and family generate … testable hypotheses about the gender effects of entrepreneurial culture. The principal hypothesis is that there is a greater … chance of females in 'unentrepreneurial' cultures being relatively entrepreneurial compared to males. Also women from …