Gender Inequality
Mobile Internet Is Changing Employment in Developing Countries, but Not Always as Expected
Scholars and policymakers have put much faith into the prospect of internet connectivity catalyzing development in low- and middle-income countries. In new research, Pinelopi...
How Societies and Families Perpetuate Gender Wealth Inequalities
In "The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality," sociologists Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac show how ostensibly egalitarian property laws still...
How Women in the Workplace Has Changed Over the Last 50 Years
Decades of progress have seen greater opportunities for women in the workplace, but sizable gender gaps still remain. Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara...
Elizabeth Holmes Is the Exception: More Women on Boards Lead to Less Corporate Wrongdoing
The so-called “opportunity theory” suggests that women are statistically underrepresented in white-collar offenses because they are underrepresented in higher corporate echelons. A forthcoming paper...
What Accounts for the Gender Equality Among Pharmacists?
In her new book Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity, Harvard Professor Claudia Goldin traces how generations of women have responded to...
Female Academics Are Disproportionately Affected By Covid-19 Disruptions In Childcare
A new paper finds that academics who are parents to young children, and especially mothers, have lost a significant amount of research time that...
Covid-19 Aggravates Existing Income, Gender, and Race Inequalities, and Further Increases Political Divisions
Seventy percent of Americans know someone who tested positive; one in five know someone who died from coronavirus, survey shows.
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Strength in Numbers: Using Data to Track Diversity and Inclusion
Recent protests against racism and police brutality, along with the #MeToo movement, have increased pressure on businesses to measure and improve their recruitment and...
Do Top Economics Journals Hold Female-Authored Papers to Higher Standards?
Articles written by male economists are cited less than articles published by women in the same journals, a new study on gender and quality...
Economics’ Lack of Interest in Gender Proves: the “Dismal Science” Really Is Dismal
Economists are still in the dark about the role of gender. For economics to be credible, we have to recognize that our knowledge is...
