Greater legal equality between men and women is associated with a narrower gender gap in opportunities and outcomes … toward legal gender equality. Gendered laws do evolve, suggesting a role for legal reforms in women’s economic empowerment …, fewer female workers in positions of vulnerable employment, and greater political representation for women. While legal …

As gender equality is a priority for 17 sustainable development goals, it is appropriate to establish a correlation … between the Gender Gap Index (GGI), economic efficiency and governance. Three hypotheses have been investigated. It is … governance systems has different implications for achieving gender equality and well-being. It is proposed to use the Windmill …

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 …

The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in … or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that materialize more easily in countries where economic constraints are …-country differences in essentialist gender norms regarding math aptitudes and appropriate occupational choices. To this aim, we propose a …

promoting gender equality in education and health. However, progress has not been as remarkable in advancing women’s rights on … understanding the social norms governing gender roles in society and legislation that can facilitate or impede women’s asset … asset ownership and control, which is critical for securing gender equity in economic participation and opportunity, and …

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …

We examine the gender legacy of past institutions by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across …

happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … persistence over the career. We find a continuous process whereby women are more likely to exit STEM than men. Among holders of … STEM undergraduate degrees, women are more likely to obtain a nonSTEM master's degree. Then, after entering the labour …

happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … persistence over the career. We find a continuous process whereby women are more likely to exit STEM than men. Among holders of … STEM undergraduate degrees, women are more likely to obtain a non- STEM master's degree. Then, after entering the labour …

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 … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …