We examine whether sex discrimination contributes to the underrepresentation of female executives in large corporations. China's strong cultural preference for sons has made newborn boys greatly outnumber newborn girls. Using the male-to-female sex ratio at birth as the proxy for discrimination agains...
Drawing on the philosophical differentiation between sex and gender, this article focuses on structural mechanisms of gender discrimination within European pension systems. For this purpose, the article distinguishes between two dimensions of the gender category: the work behaviour dimension and the care ...
There was no overall superiority due to sex, males being superior with the dominant hand and females with the non- dominant hand. The results are interpreted in terms of spatial hemisphere involvement, hand dominance, and the greater hemispheric specialization of males. 展开 ...
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in all areas of employment on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex or national origin. This includes sexual harassment, a form of discrimination which involves "unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favours, and ...
Assessing size and strength of the clavicle for its usefulness for sex estimation in a British medieval sample. In the present study, the aim was to test the suitability of the measurements used in those previous studies on a British Medieval population. In addition, the project tested whether ...
Applications for four fictional female characters are sent out in response to job advertisements: a heterosexual single, a married heterosexual, a single lesbian and a lesbian who is in a 'same-sex registered partnership'. Different results are obtained for the two cities investigated, Munich and ...
The prevalence and correlates of women's token resistance to sex We investigated whether women ever engage in token resistance to sex--saying no but meaning yes--and, if they do, what their reasons are for doing so. A qu... CL Muehlenhard,LC Hollabaugh - 《Journal of Personality & ...
Age and sex-adjusted first admission rates for operationally-defined schizophrenia and other non-affective psychosis in different ethnic groups were calcul... OJ Van,DJ Castle,N Takei,... - 《Psychological Medicine》 被引量: 715发表: 1996年 Perceived discrimination and the risk of schizophrenia in...
The characterization of pornography as sex discrimination has come to the fore of academic and policy debate due largely to the writings and activism of Andrea Dworkin and Catherine MacKinnon. Yet for many gay and lesbian activists who support the suppression of heterosexual pornography, the ...
The expansion of legal rights to same-sex couples is afoot in a number of Western countries. The effects of this rollout are not only important in their own right but can also provide a window on the institution of marriage and the right... P Meacher - 《Bmj British Medical Journal》 ...