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For the latest research on gender inequality, please go to voxeu.org. A selection of articles:

• Marriage market sorting, labour market sorting, and inequality, Paula Calvo, Ilse Lindenlaub, Ana Reynoso, 14 July 2021
• Globalisation: A woman's best friend? Not for all, Alessandra Bonfiglioli, Federica De Pace, 25 June 2021
• The origin of the gender gap, Arash Nekoei, Fabian Sinn, 27 May 2021
• Gendered laws do matter, Simeon Djankov, Pinelopi Goldberg, 24 May 2021
• Sticky floors or glass ceilings? The role of human capital, working time flexibility and discrimination in the gender wage gap, Gabriele Ciminelli, Cyrille Schwellnus, 16 May 2021
• Gender role norms and mothers' labour supply, Danilo Cavapozzi, Marco Francesconi, Cheti Nicoletti, 13 May 2021
• Special Issue of Economic Policy on stereotypes, attitudes and discrimination, Barbara Petrongolo, Ghazala Azmat, Roberto Galbiati, Tommaso Monacelli, Moritz Schularick, 10 May 2021
• Gender and employment in the COVID-19 recession: Cross-country evidence on ‘she-cessions’, John Bluedorn, Francesca Caselli, Niels-Jakob Hansen, Ippei Shibata, Mariana Tavares, 30 April 2021
• Lockdowns widen the gender gap in mental health, Abigail Adams-Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin, Christopher Rauh, 27 April 2021
• COVID-19 fatalities show a Black female bias, Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico, 23 April 2021
• Aggregate implications of barriers to female entrepreneurship, Gaurav Chiplunkar, Pinelopi Goldberg, 19 April 2021
• A tale of hours worked for pay from home before and after the Great Recession: Learning from high-frequency diaries, Arie Kapteyn, Elena Stancanelli, 17 April 2021
• Politics and gender in the executive suite, Alma Cohen, Moshe Hazan, David Weiss, 08 March 2021
• Boosting women’s labour-force participation to lift long-term growth, Stephanie Kelly, Abigail Watt, Nancy Hardie, Jeremy Lawson, 18 February 2021
• How women’s social networks vary with wealth and status, Alison Andrew, Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Jere Behrman, Monimalika Day, Pamela Jervis, Costas Meghir, Angus Phimister, 17 February 2021
• Few top positions in economics are held by women, Philip Hanspach, Virginia Sondergeld, Jess Palka, 15 February 2021
• The impact of COVID-19 childcare closures and women’s labour supply, Chuxuan Sun, Lauren Russell, 22 January 2021
• Workplace integration and gender attitudes, Gordon Dahl, Andreas Kotsadam, Dan-Olof Rooth, 17 January 2021
• The disproportionate impact of lockdowns on women and the young, Francesca Caselli, Francesco Grigoli, Pedro Rente Lourenço, Damiano Sandri, Antonio Spilimbergo, 15 January 2021
• Gender wage growth gaps across fields of study in Europe, Rocío Sánchez-Mangas, Virginia Sánchez Marcos, 20 December 2020
• COVID-19 and the gender gap in advanced economies, Simeon Djankov, Tea Trumbic, Eva (Yiwen) Zhang, 14 December 2020
• When there is no gender discrimination in promotion in science, Jacques Mairesse, Michele Pezzoni, Fabiana Visentin, 13 December 2020
• Work, care, and gender across UK lockdowns, Claudia Hupkau, Barbara Petrongolo, 23 November 2020
• The expanding gender gap in the US due to Covid-19, Simeon Djankov, Eva (Yiwen) Zhang, 26 November 2020
• Gender differences in COVID-19 perception and compliance, Vincenzo Galasso, Vincent Pons, Paola Profeta, 7 November 2020
• Presenteeism at work and gender inequality, Ghazala Azmat, Lena Hensvik, Olof Rosenqvist, 04 October 2020
• The education gender gap: From basic literacy to college major, Graziella Bertocchi, Monica Bozzano, 05 October 2020
• The shecession (she-recession) of 2020: Causes and consequences, Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, Michèle Tertilt, 22 September 2020
• Private and joint activities in the household, Sam Cosaert, Alexandros Theloudis, Bertrand Verheyden, 28 August 2020
• More education accounts for the rising share of women in the UK top 1%, Richard V. Burkhauser, Nicolas Hérault, Stephen P. Jenkins, Roger Wilkins, 21 July 2020
• Robots and the gender pay gap in Europe, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Berkay Ozcan, Julia Philipp, 16 July 2020
• Gender norms and leadership roles in the legal profession, Ina Ganguli, Ricardo Hausmann, Martina Viarengo, 9 July 2020
• Women leaders are better at fighting the pandemic, Supriya Garikipati, Uma Kambhampati, 21 June 2020
• COVID-19: A backward step for gender equality, Stefania Fabrizio, Vivian Malta, Marina M. Tavares, 20 June 2020
• Women’s work, housework, and childcare before and during COVID-19, Daniela Del Boca, Noemi Oggero, Paola Profeta, Mariacristina Rossi, 19 June 2020
• Gender discrimination in politics: Evidence from a natural experiment in French local elections, Jean Benoit Eymeoud, Paul Vertier, 22 May 2020
• Discrimination in work conditions: The case of sexual harassment, Johanna Rickne, Olle Folke, 21 May 2020
• Pay transparency and its effect on the gender pay gap, Morten Bennedsen, Elena Simintzi, Margarita Tsoutsoura, Daniel Wolfenzon, 7 May 2020
• Who is doing new research in the time of COVID-19? Not the female economists, Noriko Amano-Patiño, Elisa Faraglia, Chryssi Giannitsarou, Zeina Hasna, 2 May 2020
• COVID-19 susceptibility, women, and work, Graziella Bertocchi, 23 April 2020
• COVID-19 and gender gaps: Latest evidence and lessons from the UK, Claudia Hupkau, Barbara Petrongolo, 22 April 2020
• COVID-19, employment and women in OECD countries, Monika Queisser, Willem Adema, Chris Clarke, 22 April 2020
• The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on gender equality, Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, Michèle Tertilt, 19 April 2020
• Disability insurance error rates and gender differences, Hamish Low, Luigi Pistaferri, 8 April 2020
• Women in the economics profession: A new eBook, Shelly Lundberg, 5 March 2020
• Addressing gender inequality via choice architecture, He, Kang, Lacetera, 8 February 2020
• The share of women in top incomes, Boschini, Roine, 29 January 2020
• Gender neutrality in economics: The role of editors and referees, Card, Della Vigna, Funk, Iriberri, 8 January 2020
• The gender gap in self-promotion, Exley, Kessler, 23 December 2019
• Marriage-related taxes and Social Security benefits are holding back women's labour supply in the US, Borella, De Nardi, Yang, 23 Novemer 2019
• Women in European Economics, Auriol, Friebel, Wilhelm, 19 November 2019
• Increasing diversity in UK economics, Advani, Griffith, Smith, 15 October 2019
• Gender discrimination in small business lending, Brock, De Haas, 7 October 2019
• Economic incentives, home production, and gender identity norms, Ichino, Olsson, Petrongolo, Skogman Thoursie, 11 September 2019
• When dad can stay home: Fathers’ workplace flexibility and maternal health, Persson, Rossin-Slater, 1 September 2019
• Highways can do more for women, Melecky, 12 July 2019
• The gender promotion gap: Evidence from the ECB, Hospido, Laeven, Lamo 05 July 2019
• Women shaping global economic governance: A new eBook, Gonzalez, Jansen, 4 July 2019
• Discrimination in hiring based on fertility, Becker, Fernandes, Weichselbaumer, 5 June 2019 
• Getting more women into politics: Evidence from India, Iyer 24 May 2019
• Child penalties across countries: Evidence and explanations, Kleven, Landais, Posch, Steinhauer, Zweimüller, 14 May 2019
• Gendered behaviour under psychological pressure, Booth, Lee, 11 May 2019
• Understanding gender differences in STEM, Delaney, Devereux, 19 April 2019
• Girls, boys and multiple choice, Iriberri, 12 April 2019
• AI technology and gender inequality,  Hamaguchi, Kondo, 11 April 2019
• Calling biases by their name, Bertrand, 10 April 2019
• Incarceration, unemployment, and the black-white marriage gap in the US, Caucutt, Guner, Rauh, 6 April 2019
• Women’s liberation as a financial innovation, Hazan, Weiss, Zoabi, 23 March 2019
• The effect of board reform on the gender gap in firms, Maida, Weber, 15 March 2019
• Gender bias in mathematics, Giuliano, 22 February 2019
• Women in economics: Stalled progress, Lundberg, Stearns, 18 December 2018
• Voter bias and women in politics: Evidence from French parliamentary elections, Le Barbanchon, Sauvagnat, 08 December 2018
• The macroeconomic benefits of gender diversity, Lagarde, Ostry, 05 December 2018
• The role of parenthood on the gender gap among top earners, Bütikofer, Jensen, Salvanes, 29 November 2018
• Abortion laws and women’s health, Clarke, Mühlrad, 12 November 2018
• Women and monetary policy, Profeta, 05 October 2018
• Why women matter in monetary policymaking, Masciandaro, Profeta, Romelli, 25 September 2018
• Women, work, and socialism, Campa, Serafinelli, 22 June 2018
• Evidence from peer review that women are held to higher standards, Hengel, 22 December 2017
• Marriage prospects of skilled and unskilled women: New evidence, Bertrand, Cortes, Olivetti, Pan, 21 June 2016
• Targeted transfers and the assessment of women’s empowerment, Almås, Armand, Attanasio, Carneiro, 26 March 2016
• Empowering women economically: 2010 Women’s Economic Opportunity Index, Abruzzese, 26 September 2010
• Women’s rights: What’s in it for men?, Doepke, Tertilt, 26 May 2008

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