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Research and News

• Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment [PDF]
• CBS News: Does Wall Street Need More Women?
• CNN - Commentary: Educate a Woman, Create a Nation
• Goldman Sachs: "Women Hold Up Half the Sky" [PDF]
• The Cherie Blair Foundation: Women & Mobile: A Global Opportunity-A study on the mobile phone gender gap in low and middle-income countries [PDF]
• The Economic Participation of Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Why Does It Matter? [PDF]
• The Economist: The Glass Ceiling
• Endogenous Steroids and Financial Risk Taking on a London Trading Floor [PDF]
• Female Entrepreneurs, Work–Family Conflict, and Venture Performance: New Insights into the Work–Family Interface [PDF]
• Financial Times: Skirting the Boards
• Forbes: U.S. Maternity Benefits Are Still Dismal
• The Gender Intelligent Retailer
• Goldman Sachs - Global Economics Paper No: 164 - Women Hold Up Half the Sky [PDF]
• Goldman Sachs - Global Markets Institute - The Power of the Purse: Gender Equality and Middle-Class Spending [PDF]
• The Hot Mommas Project (an interactive case study tool)
• Huffington Post: When You Educate a Girl, Everything Changes
• ILO Global Employment Trends for Women
• Institute for Women's Policy Research: The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation [PDF]
• International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
• Ipsos KMG: Women and Entrepreneurship in Turkey [PDF]
• Is entrepreneurship the answer to achieving work-family balance?
• MDG3 Fund: Investing in Equality
• New York Times: This Mom Didn't Have to Die
• New York Times: Mistresses of the Universe
• New York Times: The Women's Crusade
• Newsweek: What Mancession?
• Problem Solving by Heterogeneous Agents [PDF]
• Pushing the Pink Envelope
• Relative status regulates risky decision making about resources in men: evidence for the co-evolution of motivation and cognition [PDF]
• Times of India: Women's Day Special
• UN: A User's Guide to Measuring Gender-Sensitive Basic Service Delivery [PDF]
• UNIFEM: Report on the Progress of the World's Women
• USAID: Promoting Gender Equitable Opportunities in Agricultural Value Chains [PDF]
• USA Today - Women Business Owners: It's Time to be Called Boss
  
• Vital Voices: Breakthrough - Overcoming the Obstacles to Equality, Development and Peace [PDF]
• Washington Post: Fixing the Economy? It's Women's Work
• The WIP: Pushing the Pink Envelope: Redefining Women's Careers in Economic Crisis
• Women and work: We did it!
• Women in the workplace: Female power!
• World Bank Conference on Female Entrepreneurship
• World Bank: Egyptian Women Workers and Entrepreneurs
• World Bank: The Global Financial Crisis: Assessing Vulnerability for Women and Children, Identifying Policy Responses
• World Bank: Impact of Financial Crisis on Women and Families
• World Bank Group Gender Action Plan Newsletter
• World Bank: Role of Infrastructure in Women's Economic Empowerment
• World Bank: Women in Vanuatu : analyzing challenges to economic participation
• World Economic Forum and INSEAD: Corporate Gender Gap Report [PDF]
• The Washington Times: In Africa, women turn to microfinance

Data

• ILO Laborsta
• OECD Gender Equality and Development Statistics
• Social Watch Gender Equity Index
• UNDP Gender Empowerment Measure
• US Department of Labor Women's Bureau
• World Bank's Enterprise Surveys - Gender Data
• World Bank Genderstats
• World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Index