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How Does Gender Inequality Persist?
Gender inequality continues to exist in advanced industrial societies, such as the US, despite a plethora of changes that work against gender discrimination. Stanford professor Cecilia Ridgeway takes this conundrum one step further. She not only explains why gender inequality continues in the modern world, she also asks if we can predict which type of Silicon Valley start-up would face the greatest persistence of gender inequality in comparison to traditional, hierarchical firms.
Women, Marriage, and Job Opportunity in the Muslim World
In post-revolution Egypt, western onlookers pose the burning question of what rights the new governments will accord to women. Will women be included in a new democracy, or will there be a revival of strict fundamentalist law? According to Stanford researcher and professor of political science, Lisa Blaydes, the question of women’s rights is not so straight-forward as simply introducing western-style reforms.
Workplace innovation, male caregivers, and the gender revolution
For the past twenty years, scholars have referred to a “stall” in the movement toward gender equality. The choice of the word “stall” suggests that the gender revolution has not reached its final destination and that sooner or later it will start moving again. Indeed, perhaps the stalled revolution is already on the move. Professor Myra Strober offers signs of hope.
The cost of choosing motherhood
Motherhood costs working women about a five percent per child wage penalty. This “motherhood penalty” in the American job market is well documented. Not only do mothers earn less than similarly-qualified women without children, but they also face discrimination in hiring and promotion. What is less clear is under what circumstances mothers face these kinds of penalties in the first place. Could part of the explanation be connected to the belief that motherhood is a choice women make?
Full StoryMoving beyond macho
Joan C. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law and Founder/Director, Center for WorkLife Law at Hastings College of the Law, points to dated masculine conventions that dominate the workplace as a major barrier to both women and men. Encouraging men to break from these roles, she argues, will do much to advance both work-life balance and gender equality.
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