female presence, meant as women in decision-making positions, on a firm's performance both in financial and sustainability …

Empowering women and promoting gender equality is one of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, and this … paper analyzes to what extent women take part as legislators, senior government officials, and managers in private … is a universal lack of equal opportunity for women to access high-status decision-making occupations, and thus gender …

that women may face higher costs of adopting and using digital tools. Thus, it is unclear to what extent female … likely to use digital tools for internal firm management (e.g., finance). However, women who face higher levels of non … tool use than their male counterparts. We find this relationship is primarily driven by women who start firms in countries …

institutional biases against women from other constraints and hurdles that female businesses might face by exploiting detailed trade … inequality and institutional biases against women in trade partner countries play an important role in explaining gender …

institutional biases against women from other constraints and hurdles that female businesses might face by exploiting detailed trade … inequality and institutional biases against women in trade partner countries play an important role in explaining gender …

. We focus on the rise of female entrepreneurship in Serbia and collect an extensive biographical dataset of women, who … took part in privatization. Although women enjoyed the same de jure rights as men, they faced a number of informal … restrictions such as i) patriarchal values, limiting the role of women in the society and ii) occupations in low-wage sectors …

Using a new dataset, we measure the large gap between the representation of men and women in leadership positions in … banks and bank supervision agencies worldwide. Women occupied less than 2 percent of bank CEOs positions, and less than 20 …, many low- and middle-income countries have a higher share of women in bank boards and banking supervision agency boards …

We document that women are less represented on corporate boards in Finance and more traditional STEM industry sectors …