After the World War II, especially in the early fifties there is an expansion of gender rights. Women are massively … for its rights. Gender means elimination of inequality and promote equality between women and men in all areas of social … life. If we want to achieve gender equality as a whole, it is inevitable to achieve an economic consolidation of the two …

In this paper, we first document trends in the gender composition of academic economists over the past 25 years, the … publishing, promotion, and tenure. While underlying gender differences can directly affect the relative productivity of men and … women, due to either differential constraints or preferences, productivity gaps do not fully explain the gender disparity in …

We posit that historical resource scarcities played a role in the emergence of gender norms inimical to women that … historical availability of arable land, are statistically significantly negatively related to their present levels of gender … inequality, as gauged by the United Nations Development Programme's Gender Inequality Index. …