This thesis analyses the working situation of women in engineering jobs in Austria. This is an important issue since … disadvantages for women, some of them being less income, bad career chances and less job security. This particular working field has … security, high incomes and others, women are especially less represented at these jobs. Additionally the working situation in …

Recent rapid economic growth in Ireland has been accompanied by a strong surge in the number of women in employment …

tend to take a lead in implementing affirmative action programmes, in the main positive discrimination of women (quota …

Women's rising labor force participation since the 1960's was long seen as heralding decreasing gender inequalities … interpretations of major tradeoffs between quantity and quality in women's labor force participation. Positive policy effects … facilitate work-family reconciliation and combine women's increased labor force participation with relatively high fertility …

This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s …-time workers. The paper finds a part-time wage penalty among women workers in all countries, except Sweden. Other than in Sweden …

migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …