The move to mass higher education (HE) prompted increased debate about the relationship between earning a degree and employability. Some commentators have claimed that the UK economy cannot supply enough jobs for the graduate ‘glut’ (Brown and Hesketh, 2004), whilst others have claimed that the...
1989; Moyser & Burlock,2018; Robertson et al.,2019). While this division of labor has become more equal as women’s and men’s paid hours become more similar, the degree of change is not the same:
Gender roles Women’s employment Earnings 1. Introduction Gender equality and women’s rights and interests are important aspects that affect the harmonious development of society. Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, although the Chinese government has made historic changes in women...
Haslanger’s research spans the fields of women’s and gender studies, critical race theory, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy. Posted on Jan 30, 2025 | Comments 0 Full Story Sara Brownell Recognized for Outstanding Research on Undergraduate STEM Education Dr. Brownell currently serves as ...
Since the 1970s, the catching-up of women's educational levels and a reversal of the gender education gap have been observed in most OECD countries. Women now outrank men in 29 of the 32 OECD countries; in 2009, about 60% of all graduates with a university degree were women (OECD, ...
The analysis is conducted using a dynamic multinomial modelling framework in which hours of work and occupational attainment are jointly determined. The results reveal that at the bottom of the occupational hierarchy degree level qualifications improve the occupational attainment of women in part-time ...
In particular, five accounts have been identified and scrutinised over the period of two months focusing on specific misogynist words and themes. We used sentiment analysis to investigate the degree of sexualised and gendered based violence in the social media comments through the inclusion of ...
This study examines the status of women in business, and outlines where progress has—and hasn’t—been made over the past two years. It also identifies 5 steps organizations can take to close the gender gap in leadership.
This bibliography focuses on women and higher education cross-nationally. It has its origins in a broader earlier annotated bibliography (Kelly and Kelly, 1989) which listed over 1800 works on women’s schooling in the Third World in general and a much s
The labor market is strongly gender segregated with few women working in the tech sector (e.g., IT) and few men working in the care sector (e.g., nursing).