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persons to the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, to identify their approach undertaken in implementing … equal employment opportunity. This industry is a female-dominated industry but, despite the high numbers of women employed … in the industry, there are limited numbers of women in management. This study is different from others in that it …
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Purpose: The aim of the paper is to explore some issues regarding the career development of men and women retail … dominated by male norms and values and this has implications for the way in which men and women managers experience their jobs …
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on men's and women's earnings. We extend earlier earnings research and investigate whether the effect of marriage is … constant for men and women at different points on the conditional earnings distribution by using robust and quantile regression … techniques. We find no assoication between marriage and wages for women, but for men a large and significant premium exists with …
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; Fassinger, 2002). Mentoring has been shown to be a key variable in the career advancement of both men and women. Lack of …The underrepresentation of women in White male-dominated science and technology fields (STEM) has been documented, with … special attention on the lack of women's advancement within these fields, including industry (NSF, 2004; Fassinger, 2001 …
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In the 1980s, both wages and labor supply of poorly educated men fell substantially relative to those of educated men … hours and wages. The small implied labor supply elasticities suggest that very little of the labor supply changes of men …
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In Australia there is no federal legislation limiting the use of donor sperm. However, it is important to place limits on the multiple use of sperm donors to reduce the risk of inadvertent half-sibling mating between the offspring of anonymous donors and to control for the consequences of...
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In contrast to curative therapies, preventive therapies are administered to largely healthy individuals over long periods. The risk-benefit and cost-benefit ratios are more likely to be unfavourable, making treatment decisions difficult. Drug trials provide insufficient information for treatment...
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According to set-point theories of subjective well-being, people react to events but then return to baseline levels of happiness and satisfaction over time. We tested this idea by examining reaction and adaptation to unemployment in a 15-year longitudinal study of more than 24,000 individuals...
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In a globalised world economy, small and mediumsized companies (SMEs) are now entering the global software engineering (GSE) arena, but their involvement is more often opportunistic than carefully planned. Considered until a few years ago a major destination for outsourcing/offshoring, Ireland...
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, entrepreneurship, education, psychology, and sociology. Consequently, ITG approaches innovation problems more accurately by …
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