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Nicaragua in Central America is characterised by both high levels of poverty (especially in rural areas) and … resources such as land and animals. Consequently, Nicaragua is a case that illustrates the importance of other factors for … Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), Nicaragua has the highest level of gender discrimination in the region of Latin …
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"Home Front examines the gendered exploitation of labor in the household from a postmodern Marxian perspective. The authors of this volume use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic theories first formulated by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff to explore power, domination, and exploitation...
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Slavery was but one of many hierarchical relations, including parent-child, husband-wife, master-apprentice, and master-servant, that arose within the legally constructed household. The Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition on slavery and involuntary servitude, which contained no explicit domestic...
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Using a field experiment in India where patients are randomly assigned to rank among a set of physicians of the same gender but with different castes and years of experience, we show that the differences in patients' physician choices are consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination....
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