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Under the bus : how working women are being run over

Fredrickson, Caroline - 2015

Most Americans think that our country has done quite a lot to protect women and ensure gender equity in the workplace. After all, we have banned discrimination against women, required equal pay for equal work, and adopted family-leave legislation. But the fact is that we have a two-tiered...

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Comparative analysis of the motherhood gap in employment and wages : the role of family policies and their interaction

Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa - 2016

The paper documents employment and wage gaps, which arise between mothers and childless women, for a set of 28 European … gap in employment. The impact of the leaves depends, however, on childcare availability: long maternity leaves combined … with high childcare coverage lead to greater employment gap than when the coverage is low. The results do not prove that …

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The evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender inequality in the US labor market : the COVID motherhood penalty

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - In: Economic inquiry 60 (2022) 2, pp. 485-507

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Grandmothers and the gender gap in the Mexican labor market

Talamas Marcos, Miguel Ángel - 2022

mechanisms. Through their impact on childcare availability, grandmothers' deaths reduce mothers' employment rate by 12 percentage … points (27 percent) and do not affect fathers' employment rate. The negative effect on mothers' employment is smaller where …This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death …

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Grandmothers and the gender gap in the Mexican labor market

Talamas Marcos, Miguel Ángel - In: Journal of development economics 162 (2023), pp. 1-16

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Back to industry : evaluating women’s return to chartered accreditation post-maternity in the built environment sector professions

Clarkson, Sinead; Hind, Lucy - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 14 (2024) 9, pp. 1-23

Efforts have been made to improve gender diversity in the built environment professions. This sector continues to experience growth restrictions due to skill shortages. Some progress has been made at the entry level; however, the retention of women in professional roles within this sector...

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