traditional and harmful gender stereotypes. The objectives of the study were to understand the impact that structural and proximal …

: First, high school records are good predictors of university grades. Second, age and gender do not influence students grade … von Bedeutung: Die Note der Hochschulzugangsberechtigung, das Alter und Geschlecht des Studierenden, die Entscheidungen … Zugangsberechtigung sind mit besseren Studienabschlussnoten verbunden. Zweitens existiert kein Zusammenhang von Alter oder Geschlecht des …

asked, most students prefer to be educated in mixed-gender groups, while the participating teachers judge their teaching …Discussions on the benefits of single-gender education on girls science outcomes are popular in the German education … literature. However, most empirical evidence tends to be qualitative work and the causal effects of single-gender education are …

pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … are likely to modify students' risk-taking preferences in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a … choices to environmental factors could be explored. The results of our real-stakes gamble show that gender differences in …

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students’ risk-taking attitudes in … economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices … over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates. Students were randomly assigned to weekly classes of three types: all …

Maldives, a middle income country, is on track to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while gender …

Purpose – This study aims to examine the gender pay gap in organizational leadership positions in China. The author … male managers in China. A larger portion of the gender earnings gap can be attributed to firm-level characteristics than … medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China. As such, the gender pay gap in larger firms or firms in large cities (e.g. Beijing …

The Budget is an important tool in the hands of the state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations … through reduction of gender gap in the development process. It can help to reduce economic inequalities, between men and women … gender dynamics operating in the economy and in the civil society. …