Older women compose a large share of labor force in the U.S. There are two federal statutes that can provide protection … for older women against employers' discriminatory behavior: the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and Title VII … of the Civil Rights Act (Title VII). Theories and empirical evidence suggest that older women are more discriminated …

This article examines the trends in women's economic outcomes in the United States focusing primarily on labor force … participation trends and a slowing of women's occupational and wage convergence with men. She considers the likelihood of a …

Statistics Directorate. The initiative aims to identify policy and programme solutions to promote women’s economic empowerment by … recognising, reducing and redistributing women’s unpaid care work. This paper presents new analysis of time use data and unpaid … on Women’s Economic Empowerment. Specifically, the recommendations focus on how to recognise unpaid care work by …

During the first half of the twentieth century, many US states enacted laws restricting women's labor market … with male sole earners who compete with women for jobs. We show that the theory's predictions for when protective …

so far separate strands of literature, on women's alleged greater tolerance for lower wages ("contented female worker … previous studies by not simply assessing whether women are as likely as men to perceive their pay as unfair. Instead, we use an …-related characteristics. Overall, women are as likely as men to perceive a fair wage as unfair - or an unfair wage as fair. However …

plays a role in determining part-time/full-time training differences. Whereas for women working part-time or full-time makes …

analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore … beneficiaries of affirmative action in federal contracting over 1973-2003 were black and Native American women and men. Analysis of … employment shares of minorities and women at federal contractors relative to noncontracting firms occurred during the 1970s and …

percent working to the disadvantage of women. If we assume that the dominant role in family- and child-care is taken up by the … company characteristics nor by the dominant role of women in care for the household and children and could actually be due to … wage discrimination against women …

We examine whether exposure of men to women in a traditionally male-dominated environment can change attitudes about … assigned female recruits to some squads but not others during boot camp. We find that living and working with women for 8 weeks ….Contrary to the predictions of many policymakers, we find no evidence that integrating women into squads hurt male recruits …

investigate the underlying mechanisms that shape gender discrimination within firms. We find evidence of a "women helping women …" pattern through spill-over effects which reduce discrimination among women, but increase discrimination among men … time, particularly for women in high-skilled jobs, are shown to be effective in reducing gender discrimination. The above …