There is a large gender gap in the probability of being in a "top job" in mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings … women. We then use linear regression and decomposition techniques to account for the gender gap in top jobs including our … measure of overconfidence. Our results show that men being more overconfident explains 5-11 percent of the gender gap in top …

reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal …, and the United States) that rank high in gender equality in their respective regions demonstrate how legal reforms have …

Using gender homophily and gender socialization as theoretical foundations, the current study takes the position that … both funder-driven (supply-side) and entrepreneur-driven (demand-side) processes perpetuate the gender gap in venture … funding. Using this positional anchor, I performed a meta-analysis on gender-funding associations. The results show that …

We conduct a large-scale intercultural experiment to elicit competitiveness and ask whether individual and gender … gender gap in competitiveness in all cultures. However, we find inconsistent results when comparing the competitiveness of … handedness or footedness. In Tanzania, we find no effect of handedness or footedness on the competitiveness of either gender. The …

A review of the recent evaluation evidence on financial services and training interventions questions their gender …. These features help women overcome gender-related constraints. However, when social norms are too restrictive, and women are … de-biasing service provision, which can be gender biased; lastly, whenever possible, results should be sex …

Since many key career events, such as exams and interviews, involve competition and stress, gender differences in … response to these factors could help to explain the labor-market gender gap. In a laboratory experiment, we manipulate …. These results help to explain previous findings on gender differences in performance under competition both in and out of …

This study examines the gender differences in user-generated travel photographs posted on social networking services … analyzes the gender differences in the photographs and the geographical distribution differences using a geographical … information system (GIS). The results show that there are statistical gender differences in terms of four variables: type of …

The reversal of the gender gap in educational attainment is becoming a global phenomenon. Its drivers, however, are not … authors find that both hypotheses strongly predict the gender gap dynamics in educational attainment when estimated separately … contribution of the tail hypothesis to the gender gap reversal, while the mean hypothesis appears to prevail in high …