Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their...

Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the...

Ein vergleichender Überblick über die Arbeitsmarktsituation von Frauen und Männern in Europa.; Die dramatische Anhebung des Bildungsniveaus und der Erwerbsarbeit von Frauen sowie Quotierungen und gesetzliche Regelungen zur Gleichstellung von Männern und Frauen haben die Arbeitswelt in den...

That social capital matters is an established fact in the social sciences. How different forms of social capital affect gender disadvantages in career advancement is less clear, however. Qualitative research suggests that women face disadvantages in project-based labor markets where recruitment...