Purpose This paper aims to analyse the magnitude of the gender wage disparity in the public and private sectors in … Mauritius across both mean differentials and overall wage distribution. The paper then decomposed the gender wage differential … 12,000 households surveyed per year. Findings The results reveal that that gender wage differentials are prevalent in …

distributed to a group of women who met the respondent specifications. In order to obtain a larger sample, snowball sampling was … barriers to the progress of women which included gender discrimination, lack of respect from male colleagues and insensitive …. The study specifically concentrated on the barriers to the upward mobility of women, based on constructs such as social …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore gender differences in the work and career experiences and … psychological health of women and men in managerial and professional jobs in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach – Data were … collected for 94 men and 48 women in managerial and professional jobs in Turkey. Comparisons of women and men using one …

subversive gendered discourse of “equal opportunities for men and women” in Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) textbooks … “equal opportunities” was supported through such representations within a narrow perspective in line with dominant gender … underpins gender norms and religious ideologies existing in Iran. Originality/value Such representations of male and female …

Purpose Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls is the fifth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG … all women”. In Nigeria, a Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill had been under consideration in the Nigerian Senate since …). This continues the effort of the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which was “to promote gender equality and empower …

and its impact on gender equality. Design/methodology/approach – The paper represents a rare case-study of an … “double” tokenism of the women working in the leadership positions and at the same time in flexible working arrangements in …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a new measure of gender equality at male …-dominated workplaces, allowing quantitative analyses of men's beliefs about gender-based inequality at work. Design … designed to assess men's beliefs about gender inequality. A 23-item version of the Men's Polarized Gender Thinking …

experiences of women managers/directors in senior positions within a variety of organizations. All of these papers demonstrate … that despite their economic empowerment, these women are still strongly connected to the domestic realm through their … authors comment on how contemporary notions of merit and choice individualise women's experience within organisations …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to inquire whether gender plays a role in the supervisory preference of female … variance, and regression analyses were used to highlight the biases that were discovered. Females believed that other women are … essential. Originality/value – The findings lend credence to strong but seldom discussed anecdotal undercurrents of women …

types of sex‐work in relation to agency, gender and the body. Findings – The paper acknowledges the diversity of women … a gendered concept through a consideration of women sex‐workers. Specifically, the paper analyses how far women sex …‐work, but also in the context of women's work more broadly. Practical implications – Through the idea of agency as a gendered …