we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around … closes because women's wages rise with the share female managers in the workplace while men's wages fall. Panel and … proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they reward performance and …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …

women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this … sector plays a minor role in low-income countries. Another difference is that women's employment rebounded much more quickly …

According to World Health Organization (2013), 30% of even-partnered women have experienced either physical or … favor this type of violence.This paper explores the extent to which tolerant attitudes to violence against women are … violence when a child, b) attitudes to motherhood roles and, c) attitudes to gender roles in society …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM college studies …. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that … having a larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men …

This paper investigates how female leadership affects the gender wage gap in the U. S. federal government. Using a … offices where all supervisors are women, the wage gap in favor of men disappears and becomes 3.2% in favor of women due to a 7 ….1% increase in female wages and a 6.7% decline in male wages. Also, the gender of an executive (a higher level supervisor) has a …

We analyze the gender gap in the success of patent application at the USPTO. We leverage quasi-exogeneous variation … characteristics on the application success. We find evidence that the applications of women inventors have a 3\% lower likelihood of … patent approval. This gender gap does not seem to be impacted by the gender of the examiner of the application. When we focus …

The Global Gender Gap report 2020 points to the fact that gender gaps in the economic sphere have widened over the … years, both globally and in India. There is a need to conceptualise and analyse progress on gender and economic equality and … empowerment of women (GEEEW) in the Indian context, and examine if commitments in this regard under the Convention on Elimination …

I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their … mechanism, I provide evidence of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children. Finally, I find …

tasks more equally between men and women by transforming gender stereotypes. … Statistics Directorate. The initiative aims to identify policy and programme solutions to promote women’s economic empowerment by … recognising, reducing and redistributing women’s unpaid care work. This paper presents new analysis of time use data and unpaid …