We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is …

We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young … women has recently disappeared. We propose that the temporary nature of migration and an earlier return time relative to men …

that in households where women participate in children's education decisions and where women are aware of gender equality … of women's empowerment and to understanding of the mechanisms to achieve gender equality in education. …In this paper, we test if households where women participate in decisions regarding children's education and allocation …

This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of … suggests that female mayors might implement different policies from male mayors and therefore contribute to reduce gender …

Christian missions, especially Protestants missions, have been shown to advance longrun education outcomes and gender … equality in Africa. However, the mechanisms behind this benign legacy and the contribution of missionary women, who constituted … of missions in colonial Africa, including the gender composition of their staff. In combination with contemporary survey …

Women still earn less than men on average in Germany. This applies to management positions even more: between 2010 and … 2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in … experience explains the gender pay gap to almost a quarter according to the present study based on data from the Socio …

-advantaged sample of young men and women and find that school behavior and measured skills are not very important drivers of gender …Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education - underachievement in school by boys and low rates … women's STEM avoidance, but male low achievement has been less-studied and tends to be attributed to behavior problems and …

There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …