women are more likely to experience reductions in hours worked and earnings. This greater adverse impact on women's working … hours and earnings is despite family responsibilities and home-schooling, industrial gender segregation and women's greater … propensity to run a non-employing business and to work part-time. However, lower attitude to risk in women is associated with …

The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … facilities. We provide projections of possible impacts of this reduction on less-educated women's future human capital framed … experience. We develop a new and modified form of the Mincerian log wage equation which we argue captures the effect of women …

In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession … caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the … causes and consequences of this phenomenon. We argue that women have experienced sharp employment losses both because their …

Evidence from past economic crises indicates that recessions often affect men's and women's employment differently …. Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the effect … that most of the additional workload associated to COVID-19 falls on women while childcare activities are more equally …

consistent with two alternative mechanisms: social isolation and decreased bargaining power for women. Last, we provide …

Why aren't workplaces better designed for women? We show that changing the priorities of those who set workplace … policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its … causal effects. We find that "bargaining for women" increases female-centric amenities in collective bargaining agreements …

This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment on women's health and decision-making power within … households in Lesotho. Under the US African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000, the employment of women in ready-made garment … opportunities. Women residing closer to the industrial zones were particularly affected. These changes are exploited for …

Twenty-six states require that women seeking an abortion wait between 18 and 72 hours after receipt of counseling … and more significantly, required that women receive the counseling in person. We use a regression discontinuity design to …. Abortion rates fell 17 percent among all women, but 22 percent among white non-Hispanics and 14 percent among black non …

This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression …