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The perception of women's statutory place within organizations has been influenced by gender bias, which has led to … result in designing better, less biased, more merit-based structures and provide women with better career opportunities …. Countries and organizations promoting gender equality practices prove that women's inclusion in the labor market can be 'cost …
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This Article presents a novel approach for understanding sex discrimination in the workplace by integrating three distinct areas of scholarship: disability studies, employment law, and architectural design. Borrowing from disabilities studies, I argue that the built environment serves as a situs...
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I hire 2,700 workers for a transcription job, randomly assigning the gender of their (fictitious) manager and provision of performance feedback. While praise from a manager has no effect, criticism negatively impacts workers' job satisfaction and perception of the task's importance. When female...
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This paper defines a category of ‘emancipation rights', encompassing both women's human rights and children's human … rights. The paper argues that some of the emancipatory human rights challenges are the same for women and children: these …
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in these fact patterns occurs because of sex. In the first scenario, men harass women in traditionally male jobs, but the … harassment is not directed specifically at the women. In the second, men harass other men who apparently do not conform to … quot;horseplayquot; with established workers. In the fourth, men harass women using means that are not sexual or gendered …
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We study the impact of board gender quotas on firms' hiring and retention practices. We find that female director tenure significantly increases following the introduction of a quota in France in 2011, with stronger effects among less gender-diverse firms and firms that use networks for hiring....
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for women to amplify their voices and impact policy. We provide an example in the highly successful efforts of the late … when women’s legal rights and roles in society were quite limited. RBG’s advocacy in this and other cases opened the gates …
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. Counties with more gender-egalitarian roots have both more women and lower gender-pay gaps in STEM occupations. Our findings … show that ancestral beliefs about gender roles and immigration patterns impacted the prevalence of women in corporate …
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