-intensive fields among women is a worthy goal, then understanding whether women's colleges causally affect that choice is important … college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of …

sector and address high levels of unemployment, particularly among women and the youth. This paper explores how one such … doubled the share of women in treated firms. Importantly, we find that these short-term effects persisted for at least three …

. We first find that women have significantly lower promotion rates than men across all ranks of the corporate hierarchy … positive gender spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within … ranks suggests that policies that increase female representation in corporate leadership can have spillover benefits to …

We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India … with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not … increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that more women-owned establishments were created in the unorganized …