October 2025
Blueprint affiliate Viola Corradini, Lorenzo Lagos, and Garima Sharma study the role of unions in improving workplaces for women. Starting in 2015, Brazil’s largest trade union federation made women central to its agenda. Using a difference-in-differences design that leverages variation in union affiliation to this federation, they find that “bargaining for women” increased female-friendly amenities in collective bargaining agreements and in practice.
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