Considering the vital importance of gender equality to development and the specific promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to leave no one behind, girls and boys should be provided with equal opportunities to achieve their fullest potential as promoted in specific Sustainable...

While, women have always ‘worked’, in their homes, in fields and in public spaces, their work has been undervalued and invisible in national data accounting systems. Globally women are less likely than men to participate in the paid labour market due to the ‘male breadwinner’ ideology...

The gender education gap has been narrowing worldwide in recent decades. We provide the first causal evidence on how foreign direct investment (FDI) affects the gender education gap. By exploiting the quasi-exogenous deregulation of FDI entry in China upon its WTO accession, we find that...