Job satisfaction has a significant and negative impact on voluntary job quits that may vary in size by gender. If women are more likely than men to quit dissatisfying jobs and therefore interrupt their careers, then gender gaps in earnings, labor force participation and leadership roles may...

We examine how much children and responsibilities related with them contribute towards the divergence of men's and women's wages, and consequently, to the formation of the gender wage gap. To derive the relative contribution of gender specific wage inequalities caused by the parenthood to the...

This paper uses fifteen indices of abuse and a definition of ‘coercion' as ‘constraint, restraint, compulsion; the application of force to control the action of a voluntary agent' () to explore how homeless women understand their choice to sex work. Twenty-six homeless women were...