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Women economists at CEP

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

Meet CEP's women's steering group - Sandra McNally, Almudena Sevilla and Alan Manning. The group oversees the centre's various initiatives on women and economics including the annual International Women's Day event.

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The confidence gap influencing who applies to top colleges and careers

Exploring how a lack of confidence can negatively impact university access, and how it can be overcome.

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Gender gaps are reduced in family-friendly workplaces

Children are one of the primary reasons for gender inequalities in the labour market, but firms can help alleviate gender gaps through family-friendly policies.
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Why representation matters in the economics profession

What prompts someone to become an economist? How important is representation in inspiring the next generation of black economists? And how positive should women economists be about the future? Felicia Odamtten, an economist at the Resolution Foundation and founder of the Black Economists Network, speaks about her experiences of the profession.

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The 'child penalty' creates most of the gender earnings gaps in rich countries

After having children, women tend to change their working hours and wage rates, and even transition to new jobs - a phenomenon known as the child penalty. Camille Landais, Almudena Sevilla and Labour MP Anneliese Dodds discussed the effects of the child penalty on women's working lives, in the 'Women, work and economics' event for International Women's Day 2024.
International Women's Day

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

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What Claudia Goldin taught economics about women, labour markets and pay gaps

Barbara Petrongolo discusses Goldin's legacy in shaping the current research frontier in gender inequalities, following her Nobel Prize award.

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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.

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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.
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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.

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Labour market shocks during the Covid-19 pandemic

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

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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.
Insights: Education

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

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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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