The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated social and economic inequalities between men and women in Canada.
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2022
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Gender equality has made enormous strides over the past century. In Canada today, women participate in the labor market at much higher rates than they used to—there are almost 3.5 times more women working now than there ...
Social Sciences
Nov 18, 2022
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Chauffeur moms are a well-known Australian phenomenon. A lack of convenient transport options coupled with gendered roles has made many suburban women (and their children) car-dependent, whether they like it or not. And, ...
Social Sciences
Nov 8, 2022
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New research shows parents are largely not to blame for economic inequality between men and women in Aotearoa New Zealand. Other factors in society, outside parents' control, are contributing more to ongoing harmful economic ...
Social Sciences
Sep 16, 2022
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New research utilizing data from U.S. Supreme Court law clerk hiring decisions finds that female job applicants with recommendations from other highly tenured women have the strongest chance of getting a job offer.
Economics & Business
Aug 1, 2022
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Young women's and girls' time spent in unpaid household work contributes to the gender pay gap, according to new research from the Universities of East Anglia (UEA), Birmingham and Brunel.
Economics & Business
Jul 21, 2022
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Gender-neutral internet searches yield results that nonetheless produce male-dominated output, finds a new study by a team of psychology researchers. Moreover, these search results have an effect on users by promoting gender ...
Social Sciences
Jul 12, 2022
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SCI Honorary Researcher Tally Katz-Gerro co-published a new journal article with Oriel Sullivan in the Journal of Consumer Culture that adds to the literature on cultural stratification by revisiting cultural voraciousness, ...
Social Sciences
Jun 15, 2022
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All social inequalities, by definition, involve one group that has more and another that has less. Do people prefer describing inequalities in terms of advantage or disadvantage?
Social Sciences
May 18, 2022
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A new paper in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that people who are the gender minority in their workplace are more likely to experience sexual harassment. This harassment ...
Economics & Business
May 12, 2022
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