This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher education at the college level and beyond and then go on to...

This paper studies the effects of mothers' long-term pre-conception exposure to local violence on birth outcomes. Using administrative data from Mexico and two different empirical strategies, our results indicate that mothers' long-term exposure to local violence prior to conception has...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Forging careers around the world - role models for women in top management from five leading economies -- 2 Chinese women: Strong through flexibility and global mindsets -- 3 Chinese women in Europe: The conflict between fitting in and meeting their own performance...