The Gender Gap in Top Corporate Jobs

By Marianne Bertrand, Kevin F. Hallock. 2000

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Gender Differences in Seeking Challenges: The Role of Institutions (2008, neutral): “Even though women have made significant advances in terms of catching up economically with men, gender differences in wages and in representation in high profile jobs remain (e.g. Bertrand and Hallock 2001).”
A Female Style in Corporate Leadership? Evidence from Quotas (2013, neutral): “For a discussion of gender imbalances among top positions, see Bertrand and Hallock (2001) and Glass 7 paper is primarily concerned with understanding what happens when public policies help women overcome these barriers and occupy positions at the top of the corporate hierarchy.”
Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from the Lab and the Dutch Math Olympiad (2016, background): “The higher up the corporate ladder one goes, the smaller the share of women becomes ( Bertrand and Hallock 2001 and gender differences in earnings increase with time after graduation ( Bertrand, Goldin, and Katz 2010 .”
Leaning Out: How Negative Recruitment Experiences Shape Women’s Decisions to Compete for Executive Roles (2017, background): “standpoint, it contributes to studies of gender inequality in career trajectories, which have identified differences in the jobs occupied by men and women as a key driver of career outcomes (Bertrand and Hallock, 2001; Ridgeway, 2011).”
Gender wage gap studies: consistency and decomposition (2008, background): “The first component in equation (8), (∆X̄t − ∆X̄s)β̂ M t , measures the impact of the change in differences in observed human capital endowments between men and women.”
Can Gender Parity Break the Glass Ceiling?: Evidence from a Repeated Randomized Experiment (2010, background): “There also exists a smaller, but growing, literature in economics that studies whether various characteristics of evaluators matter.(10) In the contribution most closely related to ours, Broder (1993) examines the ratings of economics proposals to National Science Foundation grants in the US by gend”
Gender Differences in Accepting and Receiving Requests for Tasks with Low Promotability (2017, background): “Particularly striking is the persistent vertical gender segregation (Altonji and Blank, 1999; Bertrand and Hallock, 2001).”
Sex matters: Gender differences in a professional setting (2007, methodology): “First, we contribute to the literature on gender differences (see, e.g., Feingold (1994), Byrnes, Miller, and Schafer (1999), Bertrand and Hallock (2001), Barber and Odean (2001), and Wolfers (2006)) by showing that behavioral differences exist in a professional setting of female and male fund…”
Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance (2019, neutral): “See for example, Bertrand and Hallock (2001), Wolfers (2006), Gayle et al.”