Coase Lecture – The Glass Ceiling
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9728287 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marianne Bertrand (Booth School of Business University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 338 |
| Pages | 205-231 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecca.12264 |
| OpenAlex | W2793504452 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
| References cited | 40 |
Despite decades of progress, women remain underrepresented in the upper part of the earnings distribution. We review the recent research trying to explain this phenomenon. After briefly revisiting gender differences in education, we turn our attention to a body of work that has argued that gender differences in psychological attributes are holding back women's earnings. We then review another active area of research focused on the challenges that women may face when trying to juggle competing demands on their time in the workplace and the home, particularly when the home includes children. We discuss recent work documenting women's greater demand for flexibility in the workplace, as well as work measuring the labour market penalties associated with such demand for flexibility, particularly in the higher paying occupations in the economy. We highlight possible countervailing forces (both at work and at home) that may explain why these work–family considerations may remain highly relevant to today's glass ceiling despite reduced time spent in non‐market work and a trend towards a more equal division of non‐market work between men and women. Finally, we discuss the role that public policy and human resource practices may play in adding more cracks to the glass ceiling
Ceiling (cloud) · Coase theorem · Demographic economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Face (sociological concept) · Flexibility (engineering) · Glass ceiling · Labour economics · Management · Microeconomics · Paid work · Phenomenon · Sociology · Transaction cost · Work (physics) · Working hours · Accounting · Engineering · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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Organizational citizenship behavior and job flexibility in Family-Responsible Companies
Gender gaps in early wage expectations
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Working at Home and the Gender Wage Gap
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Gender stereotyping and self-stereotyping among Danish managers
Gender discrimination and the backlash effect in recruitment and dismissal processes
What drives the convergence in male and female wage distributions in Israel? A Shapley decomposition approach
Gender disparities in top earnings
Does Working from Home Increase the Gender Wage Gap? Insights from an Italian Survey of Occupations
When She Works More Than Her Partner
Working from home and income inequality
Working from home, commuting, and gender
Gendered university major choice
Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world
Gendered responses to unfair pay
Motherhood and access to top positions
Glass Walls
Exploring the Representation of Women in Technical Roles at a South African Performing Arts Entity
Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics
Why gender norms matter
Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices
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Child Penalties in Politics
Fifty Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers
Building Program Structures to Advance Vocational Research on Women
Inequality beneath the surface
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Gender inequalities in wages and access to employment in Senegal
Understanding the Gender Gap Further
The gender gap in employment and wages
Between Sticky Floors and Glass Ceilings
Insidious Nonetheless
Goldin's Last Chapter on the Gender Pay Gap
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Peer Effects in Program Participation
Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents
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Chapter 57 Differences in the Economic Decisions of Men and Women
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Gender, Competitiveness, and Career Choices
Gender Differences in Accepting and Receiving Requests for Tasks with Low Promotability
The Gender Wage Gap
A Grand Gender Convergence
Measuring Trends in Leisure
Low-Skilled Immigration and the Labor Supply of Highly Skilled Women
Female Labor Supply
Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households
Individual Risk Attitudes
Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Pay
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Gender Differences in Preferences
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| Unique citing works | 45 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |