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

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 …

Though more than 100 countries have adopted gender quotas, the impacts of these reforms on women's political leadership … lend support to the notion that quotas may have an acceleration effect on women's representation in leadership posts and … party on municipal party groups - to examine quotas' effect on women's selection and survival as leaders within their …

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 …

Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be … because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at …. Using matched employer-employee data from 2013-14, the paper finds that the women-don't-ask account is incorrect. Once an …