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gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the … sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the achievement of gender equality. Progress for women in the world of work …This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral …
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gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the … sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the achievement of gender equality. Progress for women in the world of work …This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046578
use the share of female executives as a proxy for gender equality in welfare states; and (iii) psychological mechanisms …
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Two decades of economic transition revealed that Russian women are on average less happy than men. This paper addresses … individual subjective well-being from the intra-family perspective and investigates whether the gender satisfaction gap could be … caused, among all, by a mismatch between the socially imposed patriarchal family gender roles and the actually performed ones …
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factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age … about one-third of the narrowing of the gender wage gap over the past 40 years. Under quite general conditions, we argue …-school investments (PSIs) to the decline of the gender wage gap. …
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for the norm that “women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value”. We find that the gender wage … consistent with the idea that norms regarding the appropriate relative pay of women compared to men are shaping gender …Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper explores whether norms regarding the …
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Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for … women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens? approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss … constitution as a proxy for the norm that ?women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value?. We find that …
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In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...
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The 'missing women' dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of … relatively small, the gender gap in the probability of hospitalization and usage of scarce resources is very high. Ceteris … assets, help from friends, etc., is much higher than that of girls. Moreover, the results indicate that the gender gap …
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of household income and a composite index of women empowerment, the paper finds evidence of women’s status influencing … food security. By raising the level of food security for some disadvantaged women’s groups female status is also found to … be instrumental in mitigating the extent of gender-based within-household discrimination. The findings reveal that …
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