Gender wage gaps and women’s underrepresentation in leadership positions exist at remarkably similar magnitudes across …, and unequal legal rights appear to be contributing to gender inequality. A range of policy options (such as quotas) have …

are gender dimensions to each of these challenges, prompting the Government of Bhutan and its development partners to … mainstream gender in its policies, programs, and projects. This publication intends to support this process by providing insights … into gender issues in agriculture and rural livelihoods, education, energy, environment, private sector development …

traditional and harmful gender stereotypes. The objectives of the study were to understand the impact that structural and proximal …

on gender equality. We explore whether private food standards - with their particular elements to regulate production and … trade - could serve as a vehicle to promote gender equality in the small farm sector. We use gender-disaggregated data from … coffee producers in Uganda and focus on two sustainability standards that explicitly address gender issues, namely Fairtrade …

various historical determinants of contemporary differences in gender roles and gender gaps across societies, and how these … violence, and other forms of difference in gender norms. Most of the research illustrates that differences in cultural norms … regarding gender roles emerge in response to specific historical situations, but tend to persist even after the historical …

The gender wage gap is largely due to men and women holding different kinds of jobs. This job segregation is partly … driven by gender differences in careers in corporate hierarchies. Research has shown that the careers of men and women begin …. This divergence of career progress explains a large part of the gender wage gap. Understanding how and why the careers of …

This paper explores the consequences of the under-representation of women in top jobs for the overall gender pay gap … analysis of earnings inequality in top incomes, as well as reweighting techniques, to the analysis of the gender pay gap. The … accounting for differential progress in the gender pay gap across time periods and a growing share of the gap unexplained by …