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

The paper examines the impact of a rural roads construction program in India on women's outcomes. While spatial … integration can provide women with increased education and employment opportunities, the extent of benefits might be limited by … underlying gender norms. We identify the impact of the policy by exploiting the program rule that assigned roads based on the …

, and the women worked closer to home. Next, due to the common pool nature of irrigation water, historically irrigation has … involved more frequent warfare. This raised the social status of men and restricted women's movement. These two mechanisms have …

election candidates in India. In patriarchal societies like India, conservative gender norms often discourage women from active …This paper examines whether granting property inheritance rights to women improves their participation in politics as … time and financial resources, making it particularly challenging for women. Enhancing property rights has the potential to …

This chapter argues that gender equality and economic development are tightly intertwined, and that gender aspects … explaining how gender equality and economic development influence each other. In particular, the framework emphasizes the … interaction between SDG 5 (gender equality), SDG 3 (good health and well-being) and SDG 4 (quality education). It then applies the …

of women in STEM across countries, thereby widening the documented gender gaps. Furthermore, we show that the causal link … having a gender-biased opinion about the role of women in the labour market. The results are robust to a rich set of …This research investigates why some women like STEM occupations more than others. We show that this phenomenon is …

We develop a scale of severity of violence against women based on fuzzy set theory. The scale can be used to derive … scale and three widely used alternatives - the Conflict Tactic Scale, The Severity of Violence Against Women Scale and the … with the degree of gender equality. …

This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean … countries. The study analyses the impact of women in apical positions within firms (top manager or owner) on firm performance … Regression Adjustment (IPWRA) estimator are used. The analysis finds that opportunities for women in these positions in the …

I examine the incidence and determinants of the gender income gap in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan … substantively large gender income gap (favoring males) in all six countries; (2) some evidence of a gender-related glass ceiling in … decreasing the gender income gap in these former formally gender neutral economies-notably through attention towards the …