This paper studies how senior women's representation in the workplace leads to positive outcomes. I find that all …

for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …

for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …

for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …

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 … prioritization of leader competence over gender, boosting the share of women among candidates and state parliamentarians and the …

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …

Worldwide, women remain underrepresented in management roles, and the environment in which women are professionally … discontinuity design, we find this relative disadvantage harms women's future chances of becoming managers. The evidence is … consistent with competitive adversities curbing women's aspirations …

This paper examines the persistent effects of historical labor market institutions and policies on women's long …-World War II mandatory reconstruction policy, which compelled women to work in the rubble removal and reconstruction process … era generated persistent adverse effects on women's long-term labor market outcomes. An increase in marriage and fertility …

The underrepresentation of women in male-dominated fields of study can generate a lack of role models for female …-semester classes and focus on mandatory courses. A higher representation of women in a male-dominated field, such as Economics …

Forty years ago, a generation of American women embarked on careers they had never anticipated, knowing almost nothing … is raging about women's progress, what they can do, what they should do, what hinders them and what remedies to try. We … have excellent scholarship on many of these issues, but precious little on what women's careers actually look like in the …