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This paper investigates how female leadership affects the gender wage gap in the U. S. federal government. Using a ….1% increase in female wages and a 6.7% decline in male wages. Also, the gender of an executive (a higher level supervisor) has a … lesser impact on wages than the gender of regular supervisors. However, the gender of an executive has a greater impact on …
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This paper examines gender differences in perceptions of the fairness of one's own pay. Theoretically, we draw on two … employees. They might be more aware of the societal debate about gender discrimination and "aim higher" in setting their …
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Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at work. This account is difficult to assess with standard...
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inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …
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female representation are assessed, with particular attention paid to gender quotas for corporate boards and to the question … of spillover benefits from female leaders to other women. The effects of gender quotas in politics are also discussed and … compared with those of gender board quotas …
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years, they are still significantly underrepresented in management positions. Organisational measures to promote gender … relatively few firms that have formalised organisational gender equality policies. Against this background, I examine whether …
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Purpose Despite more than 50 years of research into gender and work, the impact of women occupying managerial positions …
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The effects of women's strong investments in career on the intra-household division of labor, particularly the share of partners in domestic work, constitute important but unaddressed issues. We use the 2010 French Time Use survey, focusing on two-income couples. We first build indicators of...
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