gender gap
-
Is the gender wage gap explained by differences in productivity? An interview with Professor Yana Gallen
•
A vast literature has been developed on gender discrimination in the labor market. In 2018, women in the United States earned 80.5 cents for every dollar earned by men, according to the Census Bureau. In that regard, Dr. Yana Gallen published a paper titled “Motherhood and the Gender Productivity Gap,”…
-
Fomentando la inclusión financiera para las mujeres: Entrevista con Mary Ellen Iskenderian
•
La inclusión financiera es uno de los más grandes retos globales. Es particularmente importante para el 43% de las mujeres del mundo que aún no tiene una cuenta en una institución financiera. Las nuevas tecnologías han ayudado a superar obstáculos que antes se pensaban imposibles y han abierto muchas oportunidades…
-
Advancing Financial Inclusion for Women: An Interview with Mary Ellen Iskenderian
•
Financial inclusion remains one of the biggest global challenges. This is particularly crucial for the 43% of women worldwide who still do not have an account at a financial institution. Technological development is helping surmount previously intractable barriers and has opened many attractive investment opportunities to advance financial services for…
-
Global Gender Parity Insights from the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report
•
Women represent half of the global population, but they often do not have the same access to health, education, earning power, and political representation, as men. According to McKinsey, global GDP could increase by $12 trillion by 2025 simply by advancing women’s equality. Despite this, the world is far from…
-
The Inequality of Poverty: How Places, Parents, and Poverty Affect the Gender Gap
•
The environment in which children grow up affects the economic outcomes of men and women differently.
-
Female Legislators and the Tipping Point for Female Centered Policy
•
Research shows that, as the percentage of female legislators increases, the likelihood of the state instituting welfare sanctions decreases.
-
Widening the Gap: China’s Land Reform and Gender Disparities
•
The main culprit for China’s gender gap expansion in the early 1980s might have been the post-Mao land reform rather than the One Child Policy.
-
Closing the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity
•
Women are key to global agriculture, but social and economic barriers severely limit their productivity.
-
Negotiating Your Way Out of the Binder
•
What role does the willingness to negotiate for salaries play in the gender gap?
-
