gender inequality in the spread of HIV/AIDS in India. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses data from National Aids … status of women in India. Policymakers need to focus on gender inequality in order to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in India … highlights the problems facing women in deterring the spread of HIV/AIDS in India. The status and empowerment of women are …

system to estimate the gender gap in hourly pay for the population of medical specialists employed in the New Zealand public … limit the opportunities for a gender pay gap to arise. Nevertheless, we find that in their public health system employment … each week, and for parents. Controlling for gender differences in experience at the same age decreases the estimated gender …

The paper initiates a research agenda to study new developments of the effects of sexual orientation and gender … family support all along the sexual orientation and gender identity issues. Contrary to the earlier literature, the most … gender identity, and (iv) evaluate how distastes, stereotypes, and positive workplace actions affect trans people's labour …

Occupational and sectoral segregation by gender is remarkably persistent across space and time and is a major … contributor to gender wage gaps. We investigate the determinants of one-digit occupational and sectoral segregation in developing …

political participation of women, using a regression discontinuity design on constituency level data from India. We find that … candidates. This decline is most pronounced in states with entrenched gender bias and in male-headed parties, suggesting an … institutionalized demand-side barriers rather than gender-specific preferences and constraints …

regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman … margin in India where a substantial number of incumbents do not contest re-election. There is no significant entry of new …

This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the … exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling patrilineal or matrilineal community origins of applicants …

This survey argues that after decades of continuous progress in reducing gender inequality in developing and developed … countries, since about 2000, there has been an unexpected stagnation and regress in many dimensions of gender inequality in many … parts of the world. This is most visible in labor markets, but also visible across a range of dimensions of gender …