growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …

Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well- being of poor women in developing countries …. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women … already use, the paper proposes two savings services designed to address the development issues that confront women. The …

strongest finding is that among plants with high levels of product market power, those that employ relatively more women are …

We study the determinants of hiring gender discrimination in the French financial sector through a controlled … experiment. We find that, on the one hand, the access differences to job interviews by women and men are primarily explained by … the expectation of a maternity by young women and, on the other hand, we also find that some institutional mechanisms …

In this paper, we raise the question of gender differences in the geographic mobility of young researchers. We try to … genders? With a French survey, we find that if postdoc is as common for women as for men, females are less mobile … position and on the location of postdoc is different among genders. Married women take less frequently such appointments and …

-discrimination policies aimed at reducing the gender wage gap. The efficacy of these policies depends on the relative size of the gap … sets from the Czech Republic and Slovakia are used to provide such detailed gender wage gap decomposition. The results …

We present a model in which the social norms regarding women’s labor force participation (LFP) differ from the norms … concerning men’s. Assuming that these norms depend on past rates of women LFP creates a gradual increase in women LFP. …