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"This timely book offers a fascinating contemporary analysis of research into the gender pay gap while also providing … attempted to elucidate this challenging topic. Explaining the Gender Wage Gap examines often-neglected factors that highlight … neoclassical discrimination theories whilst analysing models used to calculate the gender wage gap. They conclude that modern …
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"This timely book expertly analyses the persistence of gender inequalities in work. Despite the progress made through … frameworks regulating work and employment relations, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated gender divides in labour … markets. The authors present innovative ways to promote gender equality in a variety of industrial relations systems, welfare …
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During the past two centuries, major technological breakthroughs such as the steam engine and electricity have acted as the catalysts for growth and have resulted in a marked increase in material well-being. The dominant technology today - information and communication technology (ICT) - does...
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Culture and the Labour Market attempts to define the meaning of culture and the nature of its possible consequences on economic processes and outcomes. In particular, the book examines alternative theoretical and empirical approaches to the economic analysis of cultural effects in the labour...
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gender and leadership theory / Judith Baxter -- 8. Using organizational and management science theories to understand women … : second wave feminist theorizing in a third wave feminist age? / Savita Kumra -- Part II: Advancing women & leadership theory … Natt Och Dag -- 5. Social psychological approaches to women and leadership theory / Crystal L. Hoyt and Stefanie Simon -- 6 …
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The performance of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) has been a subject of continual interest to both researchers and practitioners. This enlightening book investigates the pitfalls which have affected the assessment of SME performance in much of the past research
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perspectives on gender, this book offers a rich, multi-layered examination and critical insights into understanding the near …1. The body in the library / Helen Lefkowitz Hororwitz -- 2. Gender, biology, and the incontrovertible logic of choice … / Ann Mari May -- 3. Gender, professional knowledge, and institutional power : women social scientists and the research …
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Enterprising new firms drive economic growth, and women around the world are important contributors to that growth. As entrepreneurs, they seize opportunities, develop and deliver new goods and services and, in the process, create wealth for themselves, their families, communities, and...
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"Central Banking, Monetary Policy and Gender uniquely explores the ways in which monetary policies, changes in interest … to gender, investigating issues of power, income, wealth inequality and labour market dynamics. Editors Louis …. Chapters discuss the role of monetary policy in the gender pension gap; the impact of inflation reduction policies on female …
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gender barriers and provide the reader with both theory and research results into gender diversity in technology. This …"Written in an accessible style with comprehensive coverage, the Handbook of Gender and Technology provides an … excellent foundation examining gender equity in technology fields. Covering the state of the art, chapters consider three key …
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