This paper examines determinants of women's participation and performance in the Olympics. Female inclusion and success … status of women and, more weakly, broad societal attitudes on gender issues. Female labor force participation and educational … professionals may have leveled the playing field for poorer countries. But the historical record for women's medal achievement is …

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights …. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women's rights provided. The model predicts a non …

Employing economic and social globalization indicators, we empirically analyze whether globalization affects women … social globalization positively affects both women's economic and social rights, while the impact of economic globalization …" problems, prevailing in developing countries. However, (marginalized) foreign women, proxied with inflows of human trafficking …

decades, countries with higher shares of women in parliament have had faster growing economies …

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women´s rights to a destination with a relatively high women´s rights. However, the … costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women´s rights provided. The model predicts a non-linear relationship …

About 18% of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) members are women, which is well below the percentage of workers who are … women around the world. To gain insights into why women represent a relatively low percentage of investment professionals … members are less tradition and conformity-oriented and more achievement-oriented than both male CFA members and women in the …

This paper empirically investigates whether globalization can improve women's rights. Using panel data from 150 … countries over the 1981-2008 period, I find that social globalization positively affects women's economic and social rights …. When controlling for social globalization however, economic globalization does not have any effect on women's rights …

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights …. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women's rights provided. The model predicts a non …

Greater legal equality between men and women is associated with a narrower gender gap in opportunities and outcomes …, fewer female workers in positions of vulnerable employment, and greater political representation for women. While legal … equality is on average associated with better outcomes for women, the experience of individual countries may differ …

into account the fact that women still face an unequal access to tertiary education in many less developed countries, it … appears that women are over-represented in the brain drain. This result is reinforced by econometric estimates showing that … emigration of highly skilled women is higher, the poorer is their country of origin. This effect is also observed for men but to …