Discrimination against women has been alleged in hiring practices for many occupations, but it is extremely difficult to demonstrate sex-biased hiring. A change in the way symphony orchestras recruit musicians provides an unusual way to test for sex-biased hiring. To overcome possible biases in...

Introduction -- Persistence of Gender Discrimination in the Workplace -- Corporate Social Responsibility: A Theoretical Overview -- Topical Approach: Gender Discrimination as a CSR Problem -- Persitance of Discrimination as CSR Failure -- Empirical Study: Discrimitation in Personnel Selection --...

Examining the performance of cashiers in a French grocery store chain, we find that manager bias negatively affects minority job performance. In the stores studied, cashiers work with different managers on different days and their schedules are determined quasi-randomly. When minority cashiers,...

Numerous evaluations show that conditional cash transfer programs change households' investments in their young children, but there are many open questions about how such changes can be sustained after transfers end. This paper analyzes the role of social interactions with local female leaders...

Einführung: Ein „historischer Möglichkeitsraum“ für die Karrierechancen von Frauen -- Blitzlichter aus den Vorständen: Frauen in Karriere – ein strategischesThema für das Unternehmen der Zukunft? Interviews -- Forschungsergebnisse: Die Weichen für Frauen werden neu gestellt –...

Provides a timely review of gender equality in the boardroom, and through interviews with mentors and mentees it illustrates how mentoring can play a part in helping women stay engaged in their career. This book includes international comparisons and an examination of the UK and EU political...

I study age discrimination in hiring, exploiting a difference between age-revealed and partially age-blind hiring procedures. Under the first hiring procedure, age is revealed simultaneously with other applicant information and job offer rates are much lower for older than for younger job...

We study the relationships between ageist stereotypes - as reflected in the language used in job ads - and age discrimination in hiring, exploiting the text of job ads and differences in callbacks to older and younger job applicants from a previous resume (correspondence study) field experiment...