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Less Recognized Reasons For the Gender Pay Gap
By focusing on social norms that determine the division of labor at home and traditional workplace incentives, we can narrow the gender pay gap.
The Power of Saudi Female Drivers
By royal decree, a Saudi woman can drive by June 24, 2018. But she still might need permission from her husband to buy a car. Narrowing the Saudi gender gap will be complicated. The Saudi Gender Gap First, let’s see…
Where Have All of the Husbands (and Wives) Gone?
If you are an Elvis minister in Las Vegas, you have a problem. Nevada’s marriage rate is way down and so too is the wedding business. The bigger story though, is about shifting marriage markets. The Decline of Marriage As…
Why We Need Female Monuments
In New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., public spaces under-represent women’s past leadership through too few female monuments.
Where Parental Leave Leads To Gender Discrimination
Questions about how much paid parental leave new dads should receive is the reason Estée Lauder is being sued by the EEOC.
Why Gender Word Barriers Could Be Worse Than Sticks and Stones
Sometimes more harmful than “sticks and stones,” gender word barriers create images of women that demean their professional skills.
How Low-Skilled Immigrants Support Highly Skilled Women
In additional to debating the impact of immigration on less educated men, we should look at how highly skilled women are affected.
Why There Are So Few Female CEOs
Asking why the number of female CEOs remains low, we can look at the gender balance in workforce pipelines to the top of different industries.
The Hollywood Gender Gap
Excluding Rey from its newest Star Wars Monopoly game, Hasbro added to a Hollywood gender gap described in a new study from USC Annenberg.