Women economists at CEP

Discover CEP research and events about gender issues. Find out about the work that women economists are doing.

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International Women's Day

To mark International Women's Day 2023, five economists from CEP talk about their research. View the video...

Insights: Gender in the workplace

An overview of CEP research into the reasons for gender-based inequalities in the workplace, and policy recommendations for closing these gaps. Read more...

Illustration from CentrePiece Spring 2023

Women in the workplace: 50 years of change

Decades of progress have seen greater opportunities for women in the workplace, but sizeable gender gaps remain. CEP Economists review the effect of family policies on women's careers and set out the challenges to come. Read more...

Football, alcohol and domestic abuse

Reports of domestic abuse rise after football matches. Research finds that binge drinking is the key factor, with alcohol-linked violence against live-in partners more common on match days. Read more...

Labour market shocks during the Covid-19 pandemic

Study shows Covid-19 labor market shocks impacted parents' ability to invest in their children, with parents from disadvantaged backgrounds most affected.
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Illustration from CentrePiece Autumn 2022

in brief... Women economists benefit when seminars go online

The rise in working from home and the fall in business travel during the pandemic prompted a huge increase in remote meetings. Marcus Biermann looks at who benefitted from the shift to online research seminars in economics. Read more...

Illustration from CentrePiece Summer 2022

Reducing gender gaps in mathematics education

Girls and young women underperform in mathematics relative to their male peers. Almudena Sevilla and Pilar Cuevas-Ruiz explain how new developments in gender economics are changing our understanding of the maths gender gap and reshaping policy as a result. Read more...

Insights: Education

An overview of CEP research on education and how it affects individuals and the society in which they live. Read more...

Exploring the impact of women in economics: lessons and insights

This event showed how economics is vital to understanding the challenges women face - and celebrated the women who are working across the field.
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The impact of school closures on educational inequality

Nearly all schools closed at some point during the Covid-19 pandemic. Reviewing the international evidence to date on the impact of these closures, Jo Blanden, Matthias Doepke and Jan Stuhler warn that they will substantially increase educational inequality.
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Local Value Chains in European MNEs

Catherine Thomas evaluates the investment strategies of MNEs with subsidiaries in the 10 Central and Eastern Europe countries (CEEs) that had joined the European Union by 2007 through the lens of Ghemawat's work in international business strategy.
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