Similar Search Results

Closing the gender gap in leadership Positions : can expanding the pipeline increase parity?

Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2018

Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically precede high-status positions. This can occur by increasing the supply of experienced women, inspiring new female candidates for these positions, and/or changing beliefs about women...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785770

Do Female Top Managers Help Women to Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records

Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2016

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms’ management ranks help to reduce barriers to women’s advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of more than twenty thousand firms during 1990 to 2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173359

Feminism for Everyone

Kessler, Laura T. - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184160

The Comparison of Power and Authority of Women in China and Minangkabau Societies

Rohman, Arif - 2015

The power and authority available for women are very important in measuring the cultural system in each society contains a gender bias or not. This study will examine whether the matrifocal and matrilineal society guarantees gender equality rather than the patriarchal and patrilineal society and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014139387

Wages, Experience and Training of Women Over the Lifecycle

Blundell, Richard W.; Costa Dias, Monica; Goll, David; … - 2019

We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK- BHPS which contains detailed records of training. Using policy changes over an 18 year period we identify the impact of training and work experience on wages, earnings and employment. Based on a lifecycle model and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014106671

COVID-19 : A Crisis of the Female Self-Employed

Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2020

We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the government-mandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092858

Wages, Experience and Training of Women over the Lifecycle

Blundell, Richard W.; Costa Dias, Monica; Goll, David; … - 2020

We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK-BHPS. Based on a lifecycle model and using tax and welfare bene t reforms as a source of exogenous variation we evaluate the role of formal training and experience in defining the evolution of wages and employment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014094174

Tackling Legal Impediments to Women's Economic Empowerment

Christopherson, Katharine; Yiadom, Audrey; Johnson, Juliet - 2022

It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries’ domestic laws have prevented women from achieving full economic empowerment, which in turn has negative macroeconomic implications. In many countries, laws often reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women’s...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294800

Reproductive Justice at Work : Employment Law After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

Kessler, Laura T. - 2023

capacities may be used to justify employment discrimination.Part I provides the scientific and legal landscape upon which this … discrimination and unsafe work conditions, including the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA), Family and Medical Leave Act of … discrimination law. This Part also examines how insufficient retaliation protections in employment law frustrate employees' ability …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347271

Women's Rights and the Gender Migration Gap

Gutmann, Jerg; Marchal, Lea; Simsek, Betül - 2023

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262744