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families with young children have been doing the equivalent of a working week in childcare. Women have been doing the greater … share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done …
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. Even at the intensive margin, we find that the elasticity for women exceeds that for men. For men and women in the …
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About 18% of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) members are women, which is well below the percentage of workers who are … women around the world. To gain insights into why women represent a relatively low percentage of investment professionals … members are less tradition and conformity-oriented and more achievement-oriented than both male CFA members and women in the …
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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 …
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educational infrastructure, women become better educated, improve their skills and capabilities, gain possibilities to enter the … labour market and use financial resources to start up their own businesses. All these bring women to play a role on the … labour market and significantly contribute to overall socio-economic development. The women entrepreneurship unfolds various …
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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 …
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educational infrastructure, women become better educated, improve their skills and capabilities, gain possibilities to enter the … labour market and use financial resources to start up their own businesses. All these bring women to play a role on the … labour market and significantly contribute to overall socio-economic development. The women entrepreneurship unfolds various …
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Using cross-country data, we find that attitudes towards women are more progressive as income rises and that the … quality and quantity of women's human capital increases with income. Prior to presenting these empirical results, we first … women, investment in women's human capital, and income affects the dynamic path of the economy. Depending on the nature of …
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Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Frédéric Chopin are household names, but few will recognize Francesca Caccini, Elisabeth Lutyens or Amy M. Beach, who are among the top-10 female composers of all time. Why are female composers overshadowed by their male counterparts? Using...
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It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...
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