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inequality. The article presents empirical evidence from the social sciences, as well as international experiences with gender …
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politically contentious, and has attracted the attention of partisans on both sides of the gender gap, the literature contains no …
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A number of concepts from economic theory have been used to defend legal paternalism and legal moralism. In this paper I discuss the concept of moral externalities, i.e., of negative externalities of a behavior that is considered immoral by conventional morality. According to some economists the...
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Empowering women and promoting gender equality is one of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, and this … the world and how these relate to economic development and indicators of social gender equity. Results indicate that there … is a universal lack of equal opportunity for women to access high-status decision-making occupations, and thus gender …
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The paper analyses the process of social exclusion and inclusion of the working poor in developing countries, but focusing mostly on women. These processes include: the terms of inclusion of paid workers in global production systems, the barriers to inclusion of the self-employed in global...
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between gender inequalities and economic liberalization policies. It argues that the world economy has not shown sustained … gender differentiated because the access to and control over assets and economic resources have been unequal. Furthermore … help these unfortunate people. The paper recommends to create gender-wise redistributive policies on national and …
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.S. Census Bureau, confirm earlier findings that gender, marital status, age, education, and other demographic variables have a …
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the responses differed by gender. Males were significantly more opposed to tax evasion than females for 3 of the 15 cases …. Gender differences were insignificant for the other 12 cases …
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Using data from the American Bar Association's National Survey of Career Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction (1990), the authors estimate the incidence and impact of sexual harassment in the legal profession. Nearly two thirds of female lawyers in private practice and nearly half of those in corporate...
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particular. The issues addressed here include: the confusion between female headship analysis and gender analysis of poverty; the …
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