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from a diverse sample of 792 managerial and professional women using questionnaires completed anonymously. Managerial women … fewer hours and extra hours per week. Women with more employment gaps also reported less job and career satisfaction, less …. Women reporting more employment gaps still earned less income and were less satisfied with their careers, when other factors …
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gender in the context of Thailand’s rapidly expanding economy. Concludes that religious and ethnic divisions are not … discriminatory behaviour, Thailand’s chief diversity issue concerns the role of women in the labour market. Presents an empirical … major force in the Thai economy, play in promoting or inhibiting gender‐based employment discrimination. Suggests that …
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Pay and employment equity initiatives clearly have been important policies in Canada and the United States. While the policies appear to have had some positive effects for some members of the target groups for which they are to apply, large gaps still remain in the pay and employment...
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women compared to men. The gender gap in the UAE context is compounded by nationality effects; whereby gender … of education and social change. While, there is a substantive amount of literature on the issues of gender gap in wages … gender-based differences in employment conditions for local and expatriate workers in the context of the GCC region. Design …
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Purpose – The purpose of this article is to document the extent of girls' under‐representation in nontraditional high school career and technical education courses, examine the role of sex discrimination in these disparities, and identify legal remedies for addressing the problem....
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probabilities for each group, and contrasts the experience of men and women in terms of the incidence of low pay and its persistence …
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that younger people have more positive attitudes towards women working outside their homes than do older people. Men are … less pro‐feminist in their attitudes than are women. Men and women disapprove of a woman working if preschool children … suffer by her working. In addition to age and gender, the factors influencing attitude are income, education, religious …
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Purpose – This paper aims to provide a comparison of job satisfaction levels between countries of Western and Eastern Europe by first examining the extent of difference between the two sets of countries and then explaining these differences in terms of differences in job characteristics...
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Purpose – The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between employee perceptions of their organization's management of cultural diversity, their perceived organizational support and affective commitment. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire survey was developed and...
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Anti‐discrimination legislation continues to be used as a social and labour market mechanism yet the results of Australian telephone surveys of randomly selected employers and job applicants indicate that discrimination in the recruitment and selection process is flourishing despite such...
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