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This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral … 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 …
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This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046578
Two decades of economic transition revealed that Russian women are on average less happy than men. This paper addresses …, with women, even if working, holding the main responsibility for housekeeping activities, is perceived as fair. Prime … results show that women's relative unhappiness is likely to be causes by their increasing earning powers with relative to men …
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studies whether these policies increase the presence of women in top academic positions. The identification strategy exploits … seven members increases the number of women promoted to full professor by 14%. Conversely, when committee members decide on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278675
Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), advocating the multiple dimensions of women's rights, affects the level of women's rights in a … women's rights; in particular, (i) whether the effects are stronger if a member country has a higher level of democracy; and … (ii) whether the effects are most pronounced in the dimension of women's social rights, a special focus of the Convention …
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Violence against Women (VAW) is among the human rights violations that women face globally every day. The roots of VAW … lie in historically unequal power relations between men and women and pervasive discrimination against women in both the … space for gender activism. Historically, this has been evident ideologically (the Marxist frame of the 'women question' and …
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This paper investigates the ways in which the distribution of power and well-being within couple households is gendered in the sense of having gendered determinants, from inside the household, rather than just gendered outcomes. We model such households, as Sen (1990) suggests, as sites of...
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We identify pertinent institutions governing the structure of payoffs with regard to female career progression. Drawing on recent insights in behavioral economics, we hypothesize that interactions between psychological mechanisms and the institutional setup may be important determinants of...
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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 …
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Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper explores whether norms regarding the … appropriate pay for women compared to men may explain these findings. In order to capture the spatial variation in such norms, we … 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 …
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