characteristics. This aspiration gap can explain a large part of the gender promotion gap that is observed later. We propose a model … affects long-term promotion outcomes mediated via aspirations. Our research highlights the importance of accounting for, and … managing, career aspirations as an early intervention to close gender career gaps …

characteristics. This aspiration gap can explain a large part of the gender promotion gap that is observed later. We propose a model … affects long-term promotion outcomes mediated via aspirations. Our research highlights the importance of accounting for, and … managing, career aspirations as an early intervention to close gender career gaps …

This paper investigates how female leadership affects the gender wage gap in the U. S. federal government. Using a ….1% increase in female wages and a 6.7% decline in male wages. Also, the gender of an executive (a higher level supervisor) has a … lesser impact on wages than the gender of regular supervisors. However, the gender of an executive has a greater impact on …

We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days …

gender discrimination within firms. Using data for 30 European countries for the period 1995-2010, we find that having a … female "boss" is associated with lower overall gender discrimination at work. The female boss effect, however, differs across … gender: it is associated with lower discrimination among female employees, but higher among male employees. We also …

Measuring gender inequality and women's empowerment is essential to understand the determinants of gender gaps … perspective to the current debate on measuring gender inequality in human development. As a starting point, we develop a simple … macroeconomic model of the interdependence between human development and gender inequality. We then introduce a biometric indicator …