Purpose This paper aims to examine gender gaps in work-related outcomes in the context of
Covid-19. The authors hypothesized that the Covid-19 pandemic would create a gender gap …

We relate gender differences in willingness to commute to the gender wage gap. Using
French administrative data on job search criteria, we first document that unemployed women …

The growth of the “gig” economy generates worker flexibility that, some have speculated, will
favour women. We explore this by examining labour supply choices and earnings among …

Women are now at the center of the world's economies. Employment rates for women are at
historic highs across the globe. Of the 165 nations in Figure 1, almost 60 percent have …

Abstract “Doing economics” is an important theme of undergraduate economics programs.
Capstone courses increasingly include instruction in “data literacy” and the STEM-related …

It is a well-known and widely lamented fact that men outnumber women in a number of fields
in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths). The most commonly discussed …

One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon
with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only …

There has been much discussion about gender discrimination in the workplace. Women
comprise X% of the population but only hold XY% of certain positions, therefore there is a …

This paper analyzes gender differences in working patterns and wages on Amazon
Mechanical Turk, a popular online labor platform. Using information on 2 million tasks, we …

Purpose Recent supply chain disruptions have highlighted the global shortage of truck
drivers. Because it is a quintessential “masculine” profession, the proportion of women truck …