This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …

promotion rates in economics. Furthermore, the progress of women has stalled relative to that in other disciplines in the past … extent to which these trends encompass the most elite departments, and how women's representation across fields of study … within economics has changed. We then review the recent literature on other dimensions of women's relative position in the …

The supply of women into senior management has changed little despite well-intentioned efforts. We argue that the … biggest effect is from supply-side factors that inhibit females' decision to enter competitions: Women are under …-confident about winning, men are over-confident; women are more risk averse than men in some settings; and, most importantly, women …

leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a …

representation of women in leadership positions, and setting ambitious quantitative targets for women on boards combined with the …Swiss women are now as well educated as their male counterparts. However, progress remains to be made in the job market … where both the supply and price of female labour are below that of men. While the participation rate for women is high and …

. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … women in our sample faced the same promotion standard, promotion rates would have been higher for women than for men …. Furthermore, the share of overall wage growth attributable to promotion is much larger for women than for men reflecting a …