gender. While some women (mostly black and Coloured) overwhelmingly fill low-paying jobs, others (mostly white and Indian … gender segregation and stratification, with women and men entering occupations previously dominated by the other gender … process. Distinct worker characteristics by gender, such as education, location, or age, cannot explain existing segregation …

Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences … striving towards gender equality, this opens up new possibilities for institutionalizing competitive pressure. …

-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …

discrimination if orientation is not observable. Analogously, behavioural explanations of pay based on models of gender linked within … earnings, gender, LGB identity, coupling status, and the disclosure of sexual orientation in English National Health Service … (NHS) workplaces. The results reveal a robust gender pay gap of 4% in favour of males, but no overall LGB pay gap compared …

We examine employer preferences for hiring men vs women using 160,000 job ads posted on an online job portal in India … employer's gender preference. We find that advertised wages are lowest in jobs where employers prefer women, even when this … explicit gender preference, or gendered words, and assigning them to the categories of hard and soft-skills, personality traits …

examine if non-monetary interventions, particularly, social recognition can be used to change the gender norms associated with … has volunteered. Positive social recognition closes the gender gap observed in the baseline treatment, so does the … combination of positive and negative social recognition. Our results, consistent with the prior literature on gender differences …

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …