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Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark Open
Using Danish administrative data, we study the impacts of children on gender inequality in the labor market. The arrival of children creates a long-run gender gap in earnings of around 20 percent driven by hours worked, participation, and …
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Historical comparison of gender inequality in scientific careers across countries and disciplines Open
Significance Empirical evidence suggests significant gender differences in the total productivity and impact of academic careers across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Paradoxically, the increase in the num…
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The Production of Inequality: The Gender Division of Labor Across the Transition to Parenthood Open
Using longitudinal time diary and survey data from a community sample of dual‐earner couples across the transition to parenthood, the authors examined change in divisions of paid and unpaid work and assessed the accuracy of survey data for…
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Gender Inequality in Household Chores and Work-Family Conflict Open
The fact that the permeability between family and work scopes produces work-family conflict (WFC) is well established. As such, this research aims to check whether the unequal involvement in household chores between men and women is associ…
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Economic Impacts of Child Marriage: A Review of the Literature Open
Child marriage is a widespread violation of human rights. It is an impediment to social and economic development, and it is rooted in gender inequality. The low value placed on girls and women perp...
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Fifty years of change updated: Cross-national gender convergence in housework Open
Background: Gendered trends in housework provide an important insight into changing gender inequality. In particular, they shed light on the debate over the stalling of the 'gender revolution'. Additionally, the gender division of housewor…
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Where are the women? Gender inequalities in COVID-19 research authorship Open
– Women account for about a third of all authors who published papers related to COVID-19 since the beginning of the outbreak in January 2020. Women’s representation is lower still for first and last authorship positions.\n\n– Gender biase…
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Work, Care and Gender during the COVID‐19 Crisis* Open
We explore the effects of the COVID‐19 crisis and the associated restrictions to economic activity on paid and unpaid work for men and women in the United Kingdom. Using data from the COVID‐19 supplement of Understanding Society, we find e…
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Why Should Women Get Less? Evidence on the Gender Pay Gap from Multifactorial Survey Experiments Open
Gender pay gaps likely persist in Western societies because both men and women consider somewhat lower earnings for female employees than for otherwise similar male employees to be fair. Two different theoretical approaches explain “legiti…
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Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality? Evidence from 60 Years of Policy Experimentation Open
Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and child care, using administrative data covering the labor market and birth histories of Au…
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Covid-19, Flexible Working, and Implications for Gender Equality in the United Kingdom Open
We examine the role flexible working has for gender equality during the pandemic, focusing on arrangements that give workers control over when and where they work. We use a survey of dual-earning working parents in the United Kingdom durin…
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Gender, Parenting, and The Rise of Remote Work During the Pandemic: Implications for Domestic Inequality in the United States Open
We examine how the shift to remote work altered responsibilities for domestic labor among partnered couples and single parents. The study draws on data from a nationally representative survey of 2,200 US adults, including 478 partnered par…
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Parenthood as a driver of increased gender inequality during COVID-19? Exploratory evidence from Germany Open
Drawing on three waves of survey data from a non-probability sample from Germany, this paper examines two opposing expectations about the pandemic’s impacts on gender equality: The optimistic view suggests that gender equality has increase…
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Reframing conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence: Bringing gender analysis back in Open
Over the past decade, significant global attention has been paid to the issue of ‘widespread and systematic’ sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). To contribute to the prevention of SGBV, researchers have examined the relationship betwe…
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Gender stereotypes can explain the gender-equality paradox Open
Significance Recent research has found that the strong underrepresentation of women in math-related fields is more pronounced in more egalitarian and more developed countries. This pattern has been called the “gender-equality paradox.” We …
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Gender inequalities during COVID-19 Open
The onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to progress toward gender equality and, instead, exacerbated existing gender inequalities across domains—from gendered divisions of labour to economic stability. In this paper we documen…
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Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark Open
Despite considerable gender convergence over time, substantial gender inequality persists in all countries.Using Danish administrative data from 1980-2013 and an event study approach, we show that most of the remaining gender inequality in…
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Scaling Up Open
Survey measures of gender have been critiqued for failing to reflect the diversity of the population. Conventionally, respondents to national surveys are categorized as female or male. Calls for improvement have centered on adding addition…
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LGBTQ Inequality in Engineering Education Open
Background Researchers over the past three decades have documented processes of gender and racial/ethnic inequality in engineering education but little is known about other axes of difference, including the experiences of lesbian, gay, bis…
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It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia Open
Wikipedia is a community-created encyclopedia that contains information about notable people from different countries, epochs and disciplines and aims to document the world's knowledge from a neutral point of view. However, the narrow dive…
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Why is it so difficult to reduce gender inequality in male-dominated higher educational organizations? A feminist institutional perspective Open
Using a Feminist Institutional perspective, and drawing on a wide range of evidence in different institutions and countries, this article identifies the specific aspects of the structure and culture of male-dominated higher educational org…
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The Impact of Gender Inequality on Economic Performance in Developing Countries Open
Despite substantial progress, gender gaps persist in many developing countries. Since the 1990s, a literature has emerged arguing that these gaps not only are inequitable but also reduce economic performance. This review finds that, first,…
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Excellent and gender equal? Academic motherhood and ‘gender blindness' in Norwegian academia Open
This article explores Norwegian female academics' experiences with academic motherhood in an organizational perspective. A main finding is that academia as an organization is greedy, uncertain, and has ‘blind spots' that reveal gender bias…
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Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work During Covid‐19 Times Open
We employ real‐time household data to study the impact of the pandemic lockdown on paid and unpaid work in Spain. We document large employment losses that affected more severely low‐skilled workers and to some extent college educated women…
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Religion and gender inequality: The status of women in the societies of world religions Open
The status of women in society is very diverse worldwide. Among many important traits associated with the differentiation of gender inequality is religion, which itself must be regarded as a fluid concept with interpretations and practices…
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Getting in, Getting on, Getting out? Women as Career Scramblers in the UK film and Television Industries Open
This article looks at the predominance of freelancing in the film and television industries as a lens to examine the persistence of gender inequalities within these fields. Previous research has indicated that women fare better in larger o…
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Researching gender inequalities in academic labor during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Avoiding common problems and asking different questions Open
As the COVID‐19 pandemic unfolds, a growing body of international literature is analyzing the effects of the pandemic on academic labor and, specifically, on gender inequalities in academia. In that literature, much attention has been devo…
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COVID-19, gender inequality, and the responsibility of the state Open
Previous research has shown that women are disproportionately negatively affected by a variety of socio-economic hardships, many of which COVID-19 is making worse.In particular, because of gender roles, and because women's jobs tend to be …
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Evidence of Exacerbated Gender Inequality in Child Care Obligations in Canada and Australia during the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
Households in Canada and Australia have exhibited similar trends in the gendered allocation of additional child care responsibilities resulting from policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we employ survey data to analy…
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Human Rights by Design: The Responsibilities of Social Media Platforms to Address Gender‐Based Violence Online Open
Gender‐based violence online is rampant, ranging from harassment of women who are public figures on social media to stalking intimate partners using purpose‐built apps. This is not an issue that can be addressed by individual states alone,…