Thesad part about discrimination is it starts even before the birth of a woman, right at the stage of fetus.India has been cursed with the serious problem of female foeticide. In many parts of the country girls are killed in the fetus stage only. A mothers womb is the most secure place...
The workplace is one of them. Women at work-places worldwide, as researches detail, face numerous obstacles and barriers most typical being the gender biased barrier that restrict them to climb the ladder of success and height. The context in India is as much the same or worse. ...
News2000 Field Level Workers In India Trained On Gender Sensitization31 October 2018 2000 field-level workers in India trained on gender sensitization Gender discrimination is one of the biggest challenges of workplace equality in the Indian agriculture sector. Considering women’s contribution to the ...
gender discriminationlabor marketallocation of talentIndiaGender inequality is an acute and persistent problem, especially in developing countries. This paper argues that gender discrimination is an inefficient practice. We model gender discrimination as the complete exclusion of females from the labor ...
Mixed-sex twins provide a natural experiment that exogenously assigns a boy and a girl to families at the same time, thus controlling for selectivity into having an unwanted female child. We document a sizable impact of explicit discrimination on girls' excess mortality in India, particularly ...
When we disentangled the gender pay gap, we found that around two-thirds of the pay gap is attributed to pure labour market discrimination and only one-third is attributed to endowment difference. The extent of pay gap is higher at lower end of wage distribution which is primarily dominated ...
As women have been facing discrimination in entering the corporate workplace for decades, they tend to have lower levels of experience in the industry, which can hinder their legitimacy15. Including women as non-executive or independent directors does not necessarily achieve the desired results...
The existing literature extends several explanations for persistence of the wage differences among males and females, like, human capital theory, compensating differentials, search models and discrimination. In this paper an attempt has been made to look at the extent to which differences in the ...
While there has been a recent proliferation of studies of racism, Islamophobia and homophobia including in Gender, Place and Culture (e.g. Bailey and Shabazz 2013; Phillips 2012; Muller 2007), sexism and gender hate as forms of discrimination and prejudice appear to have largely dropped off ...
Dimensions of AIDS epidemic and gender discrimination in Rajasthan and IndiaRajvanshi Associate Professor, Jyotsna