Swedish Professionals and Gender Inequalities

Education, Empowerment and Gender Inequalities

This paper considers a seeming disconnect between the consensus in policy circles that reducing gender inequalities is to be prioritized in strategies for reducing inequality and poverty, and a view in mainstream economics (and in some policy circles) that gender inequalities are overemphasized. This latter view is not stated openly, it being politically incorrect to do so, but is nevertheless ...

Gender Inequalities in Education

The terrain of gender inequalities in education has seen much change in recent decades. This article reviews the empirical research and theoretical perspectives on gender inequalities in educational performance and attainment from early childhood to young adulthood. Much of the literature on children and adolescents attends to performance differences between girls and boys. Of course, achieveme...

Gender Inequalities in Health

Gender Inequalities in Campaign Finance

Previous research suggests that female candidates do not face fundraising barriers; however, female politicians consistently report that fundraising is more difficult for them than their male colleagues. Using a regression discontinuity design to hold district characteristics constant, we study whether there is a gender gap in campaign fundraising for state legislators from 1990 to 2010. We fin...

High Technology Agglomeration and Gender Inequalities

The high-tech boom of the last two decades overlapped with increasing wage inequalities between men and women in the United States. The extraordinary growth of high-tech industries increased the demand for college-educated workers, thus pushing up their wages. However, these industries tended to employ mainly skilled men, so similarly qualified women may have been left out of the employment and...