Posts tagged with 'gender'
February 3, 2025
Breaking barriers: Addressing gender and racial disparities in economics
New handbook chapter on inequality in the economics profession
December 14, 2024
Early inheritances widen the gender wealth gap
How timing of wealth transfers shapes economic inequalities
December 6, 2024
Education increases family formation among women but has no effect on men
Analysis of Finnish admissions data challenges traditional beliefs about the impact of higher education
December 3, 2024
When crisis strikes, voters hold female politicians to harsher standards
COVID-19 exposed gender bias in reelection
September 2, 2024
Female economists outshine males in shaping public opinion
New study challenges traditional notions of the gender authority gap
July 17, 2024
Larger, all-male groups most prone to lying
New study explores how group size and gender affect honesty in decision making
July 15, 2024
Parents tend to steer sons towards traditional careers
Swiss study finds gender bias in vocational advice
February 15, 2024
How the division of roles within the family shapes job satisfaction
New study finds secondary earners more likely to prioritize personal preferences over compensation
September 12, 2023
What we teach children about race and gender
New study uses AI tools to analyze representation in images and text of children's books
August 9, 2023
Woke jobs after Dobbs?
How public support for female employees both helped and hurt some employers after Roe v. Wade was overturned
November 4, 2021
Women in leadership
IZA workshop discussed new research on female representation in leadership positions
April 22, 2021
Happy power couples?
Working in the same occupation or industry as your partner increases satisfaction with life, work and income
March 30, 2021
Men try to avoid being beaten by a woman
Lab experiment measures gender differences in performance in games with differing competitive pressure
December 19, 2019
Are women more willing to accept jobs with lower pay?
New research on quit behavior, job satisfaction, and job preferences
June 14, 2019
Exposure to “high-achieving” boys in high school may harm girls in the long run
Effects on educational and labor market outcomes
May 12, 2019
Discrimination in hiring based on presence of children or perceived “risk” of pregnancy
Married, childless women applying to part-time jobs have the lowest callback rates
May 4, 2019
Children benefit from school construction and conditional cash transfers
3rd annual workshop of IZA's Family and Gender program
August 27, 2018
Brothers foster women’s gender conformity
Study from Denmark shows that parents invest differently in their daughters if they also have sons
February 16, 2018
Searching on campus: Marriage market effects of the student gender composition
The growing success of online dating platforms seems to indicate that finding your partner in the “real” world becomes harder. […]
December 1, 2017
Do boys benefit from male teachers in elementary school?
The scarcity of male teachers in schools has led to a debate on whether young boys require more male role models.
September 14, 2017
Transitioning across gender is related to greater life and job satisfaction
A new IZA World of Labor report finds that after transitioning, trans people experience better mental health, and greater life […]
September 5, 2017
Do managers need more masculine or more feminine skills?
Among top business managers women are still a rare sight. The reasons are complex and subject to heated debates. One […]
April 7, 2017
Mental health affects employment outcomes – and vice versa
Depression, which is the focus of this year’s World Health Day, is also an important topic for labor economists as […]
March 17, 2017
The gender pay gap: Discrimination or structural differences?
Diskriminierung oder strukturelle Unterschiede?
April 26, 2016
Gender discrimination at work: What if your boss is a woman?
Despite the remarkable increase of female participation in education, the labor market and political life that has taken place over […]
February 16, 2015
New volume on gender convergence in the labor market
For most countries in recent years women’s labor force participation has risen while men’s has fallen. At the same time, […]
October 24, 2014
Should housework be shared more equally between partners?
Women do more housework than men. For most of history this phenomenon went largely unremarked. Housework was what women did, […]
September 11, 2013
High testosterone, high wages?
Does the level of testosterone, which is associated with more aggressive and competitive behavior, explain why men earn more than […]
March 19, 2013
Women do better and seem less anxious in all-female classes
Nowadays more women attend university than men. Yet, women are still under-represented in the highest levels of technical subjects such […]
January 27, 2013
Girls, take maths and boost your career!
A recent IZA working paper by Juanna Schrøter Joensen and Helena Skyt Nielsen suggests that taking more Math courses in […]