The Evolution Of The Gender Pay Gap

Author : Frances Hamilton (Law teacher),Elisabeth Griffiths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : LAW
ISBN : 1003333958

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The Evolution of the Gender Pay Gap by Frances Hamilton (Law teacher),Elisabeth Griffiths Pdf

"Through interdisciplinary research, this book explores the continued cause of the significant gender pay gap that still exists in many countries today. This gap persists despite a wide range of measures having been introduced to protect women at work. Internationally varied approaches which have been attempted include prohibiting discrimination, maternity leave, maternity pay, health and safety protections for pregnant workers, tax breaks, childcare vouchers, shared parental leave and gender pay gap reporting. This volume makes a significant and original contribution by tackling the topic through fresh historical and activist approaches, specific consideration of certain professions and topical issues such as the gig economy, treatment of carers post coronavirus and developing approaches to prosecuting pay equity claims. Our comparative approach interrogates how countries studied in this volume have had varying approaches and differing success in tackling this pervasive issue of gender pay gap. Lessons to learn regarding policy reform, are included in chapters from authors based not only in the UK, but in the US, Australia and the Republic of Ireland and fully developed in the conclusion"--

Author : Fatma Abdel-Raouf,Patricia M. Buhler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000195507

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The Gender Pay Gap by Fatma Abdel-Raouf,Patricia M. Buhler Pdf

Closing the gender pay gap begins with awareness and understanding of the state of the gap. This hybrid book that serves as a resource for both the academic and corporate communities, builds the reader’s awareness of the gender pay gap, its magnitude and ramifications, and provides action plans to address the challenge. Much of the existing literature on the gender pay gap provides an excellent foundation in stating facts and inferences; yet, the reader is often left wondering "now what?" This book tells the story of the state of the gap by the numbers and then offers specific actions that can be taken to achieve equity. The authors combine backgrounds in statistics and management/HR to provide a unique perspective in painting a broader overview of the issue, examining the history of the gender pay gap, its global impact, and how nations are addressing the issue. The book shines a light on the wide-ranging effects of the gap, including women’s poverty rates, student loans, economic growth, childhood poverty, and corporate profits, and offers insights to help close it with best practices of select organizations. Upper-level undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive education students will appreciate the clarity and conciseness of this guide to understanding and solving an important human resources issue. The inclusion of a brief instructor’s manual and PowerPoint slides for each chapter differentiates this book and adds to the ease of adoption in both the academic and corporate setting.

Author : Melissa Higgins,Michael Regan
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680797473

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The Gender Wage Gap by Melissa Higgins,Michael Regan Pdf

The Gender Wage Gap covers the history of women's wages, the differences between men's and women's wages that still exist, and today's efforts to close the gap. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9220313472

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Global Wage Report 2018/19 by Anonim Pdf

The 2018/19 edition analyses the gender pay gap. The report focuses on two main challenges: how to find the most useful means for measurement, and how to break down the gender pay gap in ways that best inform policy-makers and social partners of the factors that underlie it. The report also includes a review of key policy issues regarding wages and the reduction of gender pay gaps in different national circumstances. “The Global Wage Report is an indispensable for economists, trade unionists, employers and the interested public.” − Hansjörg Herr, Berlin School of Economics and Law.

Author : The New York Times Editorial Staff
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781642821178

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The Gender Pay Gap by The New York Times Editorial Staff Pdf

Despite increasing awareness, the gender pay gap has yet to close. In 2018, women still earned about eighty cents for every dollar men did, and that number changes when factoring in a woman's education level, profession, and ethnicity. These articles explore the discussion surrounding the gender pay gap, and highlight how our understanding of it has evolved in the past decade. Beginning with Obama's signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in his first weeks as president and leading to some of the complicated economics of paid family leave, these articles explore the factors that create a gender pay gap and point to possible solutions.

Author : Claudia Dale Goldin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015066067953

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Understanding the Gender Gap by Claudia Dale Goldin Pdf

Women have entered the labor market in unprecedented numbers. Yet these critically needed workers still earn less than men and have fewer opportunities for advancement. This study traces the evolution of the female labor force in America, addressing the issue of gender distinction in the workplace and refuting the notion that women's employment advances were a response to social revolution rather than long-run economic progress. Employing innovative quantitative history methods and new data series on employment, earnings, work experience, discrimination, and hours of work, this study establishes that the present economic status of women evolved gradually over the last two centuries and that past conceptions of women workers persist.

Author : Francine D. Blau,Mary C Brinton,David B. Grusky
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610440622

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The Declining Significance of Gender? by Francine D. Blau,Mary C Brinton,David B. Grusky Pdf

The last half-century has witnessed substantial change in the opportunities and rewards available to men and women in the workplace. While the gender pay gap narrowed and female labor force participation rose dramatically in recent decades, some dimensions of gender inequality—most notably the division of labor in the family—have been more resistant to change, or have changed more slowly in recent years than in the past. These trends suggest that one of two possible futures could lie ahead: an optimistic scenario in which gender inequalities continue to erode, or a pessimistic scenario where contemporary institutional arrangements persevere and the gender revolution stalls. In The Declining Significance of Gender?, editors Francine Blau, Mary Brinton, and David Grusky bring together top gender scholars in sociology and economics to make sense of the recent changes in gender inequality, and to judge whether the optimistic or pessimistic view better depicts the prospects and bottlenecks that lie ahead. It examines the economic, organizational, political, and cultural forces that have changed the status of women and men in the labor market. The contributors examine the economic assumption that discrimination in hiring is economically inefficient and will be weeded out eventually by market competition. They explore the effect that family-family organizational policies have had in drawing women into the workplace and giving them even footing in the organizational hierarchy. Several chapters ask whether political interventions might reduce or increase gender inequality, and others discuss whether a social ethos favoring egalitarianism is working to overcome generations of discriminatory treatment against women. Although there is much rhetoric about the future of gender inequality, The Declining Significance of Gender? provides a sustained attempt to consider analytically the forces that are shaping the gender revolution. Its wide-ranging analysis of contemporary gender disparities will stimulate readers to think more deeply and in new ways about the extent to which gender remains a major fault line of inequality.

Author : Heather Joshi,Pierella Paci
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262600390

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Unequal Pay for Women and Men by Heather Joshi,Pierella Paci Pdf

The book is the result of an extensive study of the relative wages of British men and women between 1978 and 1991. Using two large and extremely detailed longitudinal data sets, one of women and men born in 1946, and the other of women and men born in 1958, the authors examine the evolution of the pay gap over time and evaluate the success of policies designed to establish equal pay.

Author : Joyce Burnette
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139470582

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Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain by Joyce Burnette Pdf

A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male workers needed to restrict female employment and minimising the gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximised both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women's wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity.

Author : Jane Humphries
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012364035

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Gender and Economics by Jane Humphries Pdf

Presents 27 articles dating from 1923 to 1994 on gender differences, female labour supply, male-female wage differences and on the historical significance of women's work.

Author : Donald Tomaskovic-Devey,Dustin Avent-Holt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190624422

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Relational Inequalities by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey,Dustin Avent-Holt Pdf

Organizations are the dominant social invention for generating resources and distributing them. Relational Inequalities develops a general sociological and organizational analysis of inequality, exploring the processes that generate inequalities in access to respect, resources, and rewards. Framing their analysis through a relational account of social and economic life, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Dustin Avent-Holt explain how resources are generated and distributed both within and between organizations. They show that inequalities are produced through generic processes that occur in all social relationships: categorization and their resulting status hierarchies, organizational resource pooling, exploitation, social closure, and claims-making. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, Tomaskovic-Devey and Avent-Holt focus on the workplace as the primary organization for generating inequality and provide a series of global goals to advance both a comparative organizational research model and to challenge troubling inequalities.

Author : Claudia Goldin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691228662

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Career and Family by Claudia Goldin Pdf

In this book, the author builds on decades of complex research to examine the gender pay gap and the unequal distribution of labor between couples in the home. The author argues that although public and private discourse has brought these concerns to light, the actions taken - such as a single company slapped on the wrist or a few progressive leaders going on paternity leave - are the economic equivalent of tossing a band-aid to someone with cancer. These solutions, the author writes, treat the symptoms and not the disease of gender inequality in the workplace and economy. Here, the author points to data that reveals how the pay gap widens further down the line in women's careers, about 10 to 15 years out, as opposed to those beginning careers after college. She examines five distinct groups of women over the course of the twentieth century: cohorts of women who differ in terms of career, job, marriage, and children, in approximated years of graduation - 1900s, 1920s, 1950s, 1970s, and 1990s - based on various demographic, labor force, and occupational outcomes. The book argues that our entire economy is trapped in an old way of doing business; work structures have not adapted as more women enter the workforce. Gender equality in pay and equity in home and childcare labor are flip sides of the same issue, and the author frames both in the context of a serious empirical exploration that has not yet been put in a long-run historical context. This book offers a deep look into census data, rich information about individual college graduates over their lifetimes, and various records and sources of material to offer a new model to restructure the home and school systems that contribute to the gender pay gap and the quest for both family and career. --

Author : Sun Xinbo,Beatriz Larraz
Publisher : Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788490445860

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Gender pay gap and inequality in China: Evolution and Challenges for equality by Sun Xinbo,Beatriz Larraz Pdf

Attention to gender equality is an important issue in the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This book analyses the wage inequality and the gender pay gap in China from a temporal and spatial point of view, using the wage surveys available from 1995 to the present. Due to their rapid growth since the country's entry into a free market economy, the analysis carried out in this book seems crucial. Our study highlights that China is currently facing serious problems of gender pay discrimination. It also finds that the earnings of coastal provinces are much higher than those of interior provinces. In terms of wage inequality, figures in China are currently high. The spatial analysis of wages distribution shows that there are very different realities throughout the Chinese geography.

Author : Ceta Ramkhalawansingh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Equal pay for equal work
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038946229

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(Un)equal Pay by Ceta Ramkhalawansingh Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264488540

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Gender Equality at Work The Role of Firms in the Gender Wage Gap in Germany by OECD Pdf

The review analyses gender differences in job mobility and the earnings consequences of career breaks following childbirth to shed light on the evolution of the gender wage gap across the working life. To put results for Germany in context, they are systematically benchmarked to those of four nearby countries (i.e. Denmark, France, the Netherlands and Sweden). The policy discussion extends the empirical analysis by putting forward a comprehensive policy package with an emphasis on policies targeted at firms.