Using data from the Bicol region of the Phillipines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural …, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that … educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino women to reap …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …

Using data from the Bicol region of the Philippines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural …, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that … educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino women to reap …

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …. The authors also claim that the incidence of financial control behavior rises because women become more likely to be …

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …. The authors also claim that the incidence of financial control behavior rises because women become more likely to be …

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 …

closes because women's wages rise with the share female managers in the workplace while men's wages fall. Panel and … proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they reward performance and … those managers are women. These findings suggest a stronger presence of women in managerial positions can help tackle the …

This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …

medicine. A well documented opt-out revolution is underway, in which women professionals are leaving the workplace in droves … but opt out of family. These men and women forego parenting and stable, long-term relationships in surprisingly high … women. Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, this Chapter shows that among professionals, long-term adult …