Women Managers and the Gender-Based Gap in Access to Education : Evidence from Firm-Level Data in Developing Countries

A number of studies explore the differences in men's and women's labor market participation rates and wages. Some of these differences have been linked to gender disparities in education access and attainment. The present paper contributes to this literature by analyzing the relationship b...

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Main Authors:	Islam, Asif, Amin, Mohammad
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2015
Subjects:	gender gaps gender disparities gender inequality edcuation employment
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23524

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spelling	okr-10986-235242021-04-23T14:04:15Z Women Managers and the Gender-Based Gap in Access to Education : Evidence from Firm-Level Data in Developing Countries Islam, Asif Amin, Mohammad gender gaps gender disparities gender inequality edcuation employment A number of studies explore the differences in men's and women's labor market participation rates and wages. Some of these differences have been linked to gender disparities in education access and attainment. The present paper contributes to this literature by analyzing the relationship between the proclivity of a firm having a top woman manager and access to education among women relative to men in the country. The study combines the literature on women's careers in management, which has mostly focused on developed countries, with the development literature that has emphasized the importance of access to education. Using firm-level data for seventy-three developing countries in 2007–10, the study finds strong evidence that countries with a higher proportion of top women managers also have higher enrollment rates for women relative to men in primary, secondary, and tertiary education. 2015-12-28T18:48:03Z 2015-12-28T18:48:03Z 2015-10-06 Journal Article Feminist Economics 1354-5701 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23524 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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spellingShingle	gender gaps gender disparities gender inequality edcuation employment Islam, Asif Amin, Mohammad Women Managers and the Gender-Based Gap in Access to Education : Evidence from Firm-Level Data in Developing Countries
description	A number of studies explore the differences in men's and women's labor market participation rates and wages. Some of these differences have been linked to gender disparities in education access and attainment. The present paper contributes to this literature by analyzing the relationship between the proclivity of a firm having a top woman manager and access to education among women relative to men in the country. The study combines the literature on women's careers in management, which has mostly focused on developed countries, with the development literature that has emphasized the importance of access to education. Using firm-level data for seventy-three developing countries in 2007–10, the study finds strong evidence that countries with a higher proportion of top women managers also have higher enrollment rates for women relative to men in primary, secondary, and tertiary education.
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author	Islam, Asif Amin, Mohammad
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title	Women Managers and the Gender-Based Gap in Access to Education : Evidence from Firm-Level Data in Developing Countries
title_short	Women Managers and the Gender-Based Gap in Access to Education : Evidence from Firm-Level Data in Developing Countries
title_full	Women Managers and the Gender-Based Gap in Access to Education : Evidence from Firm-Level Data in Developing Countries
title_fullStr	Women Managers and the Gender-Based Gap in Access to Education : Evidence from Firm-Level Data in Developing Countries
title_full_unstemmed	Women Managers and the Gender-Based Gap in Access to Education : Evidence from Firm-Level Data in Developing Countries
title_sort	women managers and the gender-based gap in access to education : evidence from firm-level data in developing countries
publisher	Taylor and Francis
publishDate	2015
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Women Managers and the Gender-Based Gap in Access to Education : Evidence from Firm-Level Data in Developing Countries

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