Gender and Work
Struggling with juggling: gender and work/life balance in the legal professions
... clear gender dif- 568 ference in take-up of flexible working arrangements was 569 confirmed by discussions in the focus groups, where the 570 male participants agreed that it would be difficult in 571 practice for ...
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Sex, gender and work segregation in the cultural industries
... and gender dynam- ics in cultural work, our theme in this chapter, then, is work segregation by sex, which of course is one aspect of the more general problem of division of labour by ...
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Happiness and Optimism Interventions at Work: Gender Differences
... The aim of this quasi-experimental study was to analyze the changes derived from happiness and optimism interventions in 12 groups of employees cho- sen at random in two Colombian companies. For the happiness ...
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Paid work and parenthood: gender, class and cohort differences in the UK
... paid work specifically in part-time employment has been attributed to (especially Conservative) governments’ resistance to policies supporting maternal paid work (Warren, Pascall, & Fox, ...paid ...
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Gender Differences in Attitudes towards the Interconnection of Family Life and Work
... Paid work appears to be preferred by men due to being taught that they are not worthy enough to help with housework, whereas a sense of emotional fulfilment from paid jobs is gained (Thornthwaite, ...of ...
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Gender traits in relation to work versus career salience
... the work environment is seeing a shift in women’s display of gender, where masculine traits are ...greater gender flexibility on the part of ...that work- and career-role salience are less ...
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Opportunities and outcomes in education and work: gender effects
... current gender pay gap across full-time and part-time workers is 19% per ...the gender pay gap is relatively small for the young and single, it increases with age, marriage and ...part-time work ...
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Social work: A history of gender and class in the profession
... Social work, on the other hand, is a female professional project, where women constitute a vast majority of the ...social work professionalisation in Norway from a feminist perspective and by taking the ...
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Gender at Work. A Companion to the World Development Report on Jobs. In the World of Work
... plots, work in less profitable sectors, and face discriminatory laws and norms that constrain their time and choices, as well as their ability to own or inherit property, open a bank account, or take out a loan—to ...
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The effects of gender diversity on work group performance in Pakistani universities
... hand, gender equality is often cited by intellectuals as a critical condition for attaining the best out of gender ...that gender diversity leads to diverse opinions and perspectives which increase ...
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Role of Social Work in Minimizing Sexual and Gender Inequalities
... Social work professionals can reduce gender inequalities by facilitating women to have access to formal education. The liberating nature of education is essential in promoting women's capacity to challenge ...
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Gender and professional work in Hungary and the USSR : similarities, differences and continuities
... countries. As the chapter has suggested, Russia and Hungary represent different historical varieties of state socialism and therefore, whilst there are significant similarities, the patterns of women’s inclusion in ...
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Maternal influence on adolescents' formation of work-family gender ideology : variations by gender, race, and ethnicity
... Also informative for a theory on intergenerational transmission of work-family gender attitudes are status attainment theories. According to the status attainment model, the occupational, economic, and ...
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Gender and leadership aspiration: The impact of work-life initiatives
... with gender or possess a strong theoretical basis for inclusion as emphasized by Carlson and Wu ...and work experience, measured in years as men (mean work experience = ...(mean work ...
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Post Fordist reconfigurations of gender, work and life : theory and practice
... between work and life in advanced economies (Mitchell et ...to work to create ‘surplus in relation to collective cognitive mechanisms’ ...of gender are mapped (Weeks 2007: ...
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The Influence of Emotion and Gender on Work Efficiency in Hazy Weather
... the work efficiency. 2 (gender) × 3 (emotional type: positive, neutral and negative) completely randomized design is used and the reaction time (RT) is ...and gender is significant; the RT of females ...
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The effects of gender diversity on work group performance in Pakistani universities
... in work groups. The interpretations suggest that the effects of gender stereotypes, Pukhtunwali (Pukhtun culture), its power over religious interpretation, and on the joint family system, constitute ...
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Social work with families at social risk promoting gender equality
... that gender equality is somewhere close to empowerment, liberation and human ...to gender equality in social work practice is the textbooks used for teaching social ...about gender equality ...
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Impact of the Pursuit of an Equal Gender Balance on High Performance Work Systems
... portraying gender diversity in company information flyers or on the company website (Avery & McKay, ...Portraying gender diversity gives women the impression that the firm values this kind of ...their ...
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Taxation, work and gender equality in Ireland
... As women tend to be overrepresented at the bottom of the wage distribution, the introduction of the NMW in 2000 increased the wages of low earning women by relatively more than the wages of low earning men (Bargain et ...
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