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Gender effects on investment efficiency in European firms Available

Tiago Cruz Gonçalves, Victor Barros, Cristina Gaio and José Almeida, 2026, Gender effects on investment efficiency in European firms Available, Review of Accounting and Finance, Vol. 25 No. 1 pp. 75-97.

Segregation by branch of activity and profession according to gender: an analysis of developments in Portugal

Catarina Gaspar Brazão de Almeida, Mariana Santos Branco, Marta Andreia Mariano Ferreira, Rodrigo Gonçalo Gregório Carvalho, Sofia Carocha Teixeira Aragão Soares, 2025, Segregation by branch of activity and profession according to gender: an analysis of developments in Portugal, Economics Degree Seminar, Public Economics and Social Policy, Academic Year 2024/2025, Final Report.

Gender pay gap trends across STEM fields: an empirical analysis Available to Purchase

João Cruz, Amélia Bastos, Sara Falcão Casaca and Isabel Proença, 2025, Gender pay gap trends across STEM fields: an empirical analysis Available to Purchase, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 1-22.

Why aren't there more women in leadership positions? A contribution from POWER

Maria João Guedes, 2025, Why aren't there more women in leadership positions? A contribution from POWER, Mundo Crítico - Journal of Development and Cooperation, Magazine 11 - Knowledge and Circumstances.


Women and Informal Entrepreneurship: “Calamities” and digital technologies in Mozambique

Inês Faria, 2025, Women and Informal Entrepreneurship: “Calamities” and digital technologies in Mozambique, Mundo Crítico - Journal of Development and Cooperation, Magazine 11 - Knowledge and Circumstances.

Study-Balanced Gender Boards and Environmental, Social, and Governance Performance

Maria João Guedes, and Anne Sophie Grübler, 2025. Balanced Gender Boards and Environmental, Social, and Governance Performance, Risk Governance & Control: Financial Markets & Institutions.

Study on Equality between Women and Men in the Co-operative Sector

Team: Sara Falcão Casaca (coord) and Susana Ramalho Marques, 2024. CONFECOOP - Portuguese Co-operative Confederation. Study on Equality between Women and Men in the Co-operative Sector.

Gender Gap in Patents: The Case of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil

Vitória Maria Serafim, Fernanda Maciel Reichert & Sara Falcão Casaca. 2024. Human-Centred Technology Management for a Sustainable Future

The Persistence of Gender Pay and Employment Gaps in European Countries

Afonso, António and Blanco Arana, Carmen. 2024. CESifo Working Paper No. 11315

The contribution of Economic and Organisational Sociology to understanding pay inequalities between men and women

Casaca, Sara Falcão. 2023. The contribution of Economic and Organisational Sociology to understanding pay inequalities between men and women, Social Analysis, 58 (249), pp: 824-845.

The Social and Economic Benefits of Equal Pay for Women and Men

Casaca, Sara Falcão, Amélia Bastos, Heloísa Perista, Isabel Proença, Maria Francisca Amaro and João Cruz. 2022. Economic Case, ISEG-ULisboa, CEMAPRE, CESIS, EDDA. EEA Grants, Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area. Programme operator: CIG - Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality. Economic-Case_new.pdf (genderpaygap-elimination.co.uk). Available in Portuguese and English Policy-Brief-Economic-Case-Abbreviated-version.pdf (genderpaygap-elimination.pt)

Does the family care best? Ideals of care in a familialistic care regime

Kadi S, Rodrigues R, Kahlert R, Hofmann S, Bauer G. 2022 Journal of Social Policy; 53(1):45-62.

Gender-Balanced Seats, Equal Power and Greater Gender Equality? Zooming into the Boardroom of Companies Bound by the Portuguese Gender Quota Law

Casaca, Sara Falcão, Maria João Guedes, Susana Ramalho Marques, and Cathrine Seierstad. 2022. Social Sciences 11 (10): 449.

On the same page? Differences between male and female board members on the benefits of a gender-balanced representation

Maria João Guedes, Patel Panjak. and Sara Falcão Casaca, e. 2022. Corporate Governance.

Shedding light on the merit debate: how different are male and female board members in the first stage of the quota law?

Casaca, Sara Falcão, Maria João Guedes, Susana Ramalho Marques, and Nuno Paço. 2022. Gender in Management.

White Paper - Gender Balance in Company Management Bodies and Equality Plans

Falcão Casaca, Sara (coord.), Guedes, Maria João, Ramalho Marques, Susana, Paço, Nuno, Perista, Heloísa. 2021. Socius.

Executives’ gender pay gap and financing constraints

Ana P. Fernandes, Priscila Ferreira, 2021. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 192

In favour, against or like this? Positions and discourses of management body members on legally binding representation thresholds, merit and equality

Casaca, Sara Falcão, Maria João Guedes, Susana Ramalho Marques, and Nuno Paço. 2021. ex aequo, 44:57-77.

The GBB (Gender Balance on Boards) index: a proposal to measure the gender balance on boards

Guedes, Maria João, and Sara Falcão Casaca. 2021. Journal of Governance and Regulation 10(2): 249-257.

Is a progressive law accelerating the longstanding snail's pace? Women on corporate boards in Portugal

Casaca, Sara Falcão, Maria João Guedes, Susana Ramalho Marques, and Nuno Paço. 2021. RAE Revista de Administração de Empresas 61(2).

Balance between women and men on the governing bodies of listed companies: the influence of corporate strategic commitment

Paço, Nuno, and Sara Falcão Casaca. 2021. Sociology, Problems and Practices 96: 75-91.

A Configurational approach to the determinants of women on boards

Guedes, Maria João, & Monteiro, Alice. 2020. Corporate Ownership & Control, 17, 100-109.

Females show more sustained performance during test-taking than males

Balart, P., Oosterveen, M. 2019. Nature Communications Volume 10.

Are scientific memes inherited differently from gendered authorship?

Araújo, T., Fontainha, E. 2018. Scientometrics 117, 953-972.

On the cultural basis of gender differences in negotiation

Andersen, S., Ertac, S., Gneezy, U., List, John A., Maximiano, S. 2018, Experimental Economics Volume 21, pages 757-778.

Income-rich and wealth-poor? The impact of measures of socio-economic status in the analysis of the distribution of long-term care use among older people

Rodrigues R, Ilinca S, Schmidt AE. 2017. Health Economics; 27:637-646.