Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers … around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only …

Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women's careers … around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only …

We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting … perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one the largest psychotherapy interventions in the world, and the … treatment was highly successful at reducing depression. We locate mothers seven years after the end of the intervention to …

women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … increased childcare needs during school closures; in Nigeria, mothers of school-age children experience the largest declines in … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this …