Much of the literature on women in politics seeks to answer two questions: Why are there so few women in elective … office? What do women in elective office do differently from men? We connect these two strands of the literature by showing … that the process by which women are selected into office has important consequences for their performance once elected. We …

One contributor to the twentieth century rise in married women's labor force participation was declining responsiveness … to husbands’ wages and other family income. Now that the rapid rise in married women’s participation has slowed and even … begun to reverse, this paper asks whether married women’s cross-wage elasticities have continued to fall. Using the outgoing …

women’s reported experiences of participation, performance, and advancement in academic science and engineering in a major … technological institution. The methods and findings have implications for understanding the complexity underlying women …’s participation and performance, and for practices and policies to support advancement of women faculty, particularly those in …

Mr. Miaoulis has spent a significant part of his career trying to increase the number of women studying engineering …

Nigerian women aged 15–49. We test four models: model 1 explores whether attitudes are consistent with a view of FGC as a … social convention associated with marriageability of women. Model 2 examines the impact of modernization factors such as …