There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there … India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in … economic activity in constituencies that elect women and no evidence of negative spillovers to neighbouring male …

, the current situation of women in the society was examined and the examples of state programs for ensuring gender equality …The article is focused on the study of gender equality issues as a necessary factor in the economic growth of the state … strategy for gender equality achievement in the society, as well as conditions and factors of the economic growth in Kyrgyzstan …

The four essays collected in this volume aim is to shed some light on specific aspect in which women are discriminated … against (employment, education and access to health care) in developing countries and on the impact that gender inequalities … have on development. The first chapter investigates the impact of gender bias in education and employment on economic …

gender norms on fertility and economic growth to explain the phenomena recently observed across high-income countries. To … this end, we construct an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and labor supply, incorporating gender … norms and R&D activities. We demonstrate that conventional gender norms can impede fertility and economic growth …

and male workers. The wage analysis reveals that, on average, the gender wage gap has been lowest in routine cognitive …