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    Gender, life cycle trajectories, and their determinants in the Portuguese labour market

    Gender inequalities relative to labour market opportunities deserve thorough attention from Portuguese researchers in the fields of labour and human resources economics. Indeed, there is clear empirical eviden...

    Graça Leão Fernandes, Margarida Chagas Lopes in Gender — from Costs to Benefits (2003)

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    Part-time employment in the Swedish retail trade: A gender perspective on the development of working time patterns

    Part-time work is very much on the agenda in Sweden today, as the government has assigned 300 million SEK (=32.5 million euro) for a period of three years in order to reduce part-time unemployment (www.helapro...

    Inger Jonsson in Gender — from Costs to Benefits (2003)

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    Paying the price: The cost of the equal employment opportunity in the Australian banking industry

    In Australia, both the prohibition of sex discrimination in employment and the promotion of equal employment opportunity have a legislative base. At the federal level, the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (SDA) pro...

    Sara Charlesworth in Gender — from Costs to Benefits (2003)

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    Macroeconomic policies, globalization and gender: Issues and challenges in an era of declining economic security

    Economic globalization and the increasing frequencies of financial and economic crises in East Asia, Latin America and the transition economies in recent years have served to underline the deficiencies and exc...

    Maria S. Floro in Gender — from Costs to Benefits (2003)

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    Ageing and care: Gendered costs and benefits of societal progress in an international perspective

    All over the world, increases in the average life spans of women and men mean that more people are reaching old age than ever in recorded history. In some regions and countries, decreasing birth rates have res...

    Agneta Stark in Gender — from Costs to Benefits (2003)

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    More women at the top: The impact of gender roles and leadership style

    Opinions differ about the ability of women to function competently in leadership roles. Traditional prejudices against female leaders were blatant, as exemplified by President Richard Nixon’s words when explai...

    Alice H. Eagly in Gender — from Costs to Benefits (2003)

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    Looking beyond the software boom: Gendered costs and benefits?

    The expansion of the IT sector in recent years, coupled with the positive economic cycle and the openness of the field, characterized by the dynamic creation of new tasks, seemed to justify hopes for an increa...

    Esther Ruiz Ben in Gender — from Costs to Benefits (2003)

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    Gender in growth theory

    Gender relations have changed fundamentally in the course of economic growth. Compared to a hundred years ago, European women and men do different kinds of work, live together in a different way and have fewer...

    Marianne Saam in Gender — from Costs to Benefits (2003)

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    Scrambling in the ruins of patriarchy: Neo-liberalism and men’s divided interests in gender change

    Twenty years ago the U.S. sociologist Goode (1982) published an essay “Why men resist”, reflecting on men’s responses to the women’s liberation movement. This remains one of the best appraisals of men’s intere...

    R. W. Connell in Gender — from Costs to Benefits (2003)

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    The social construction of health inequalities: The case of Italian women

    This article focuses on the relationship between women, poverty and health - the latter being a mix of physical, psychological and social wellbeing - paying special attention to the situation in Italy. This re...

    Elisabetta Ruspini in Gender — from Costs to Benefits (2003)

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    Foreign capital effects on gender wage differentials in Indonesia

    The good news first: The gender wage differential2 in Indonesia declined during the past fifteen years until the Asian financial crisis. Whereas in 1986 women’s monthly wages represented less than 60% of mens’ mo...

    Karin Astrid Siegmann in Gender — from Costs to Benefits (2003)

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    Gendering in organizations: Lessons from the prison and other iron cages

    Outside of criminology and the rare studies of total institutions in the organizational literature, the prison has held little interest for sociologists. Certainly, it has never been a topic of mainstream rese...

    Dana M. Britton in Gender — from Costs to Benefits (2003)