Closing the Gender Pay Gap: The Path to Ensure Equality in Remuneration

Closing the Gender Gap

The Gender Pay Gap

Gender Equality: Bridging the Gap

Gender equality and violent behavior: how neighborhood gender equality influences the gender gap in violence.

Using a sample of 703 African American adolescents from the Family and Community Health Study (FACHS) along with census data from the year 2000, we examine the association between neighborhood-level gender equality and violence. We find that boys' and girls' violent behavior is unevenly distributed across neighborhood contexts. In particular, gender differences in violent behavior are less pron...

Women’s Union Leadership: Closing the Gender Gap

Women comprise 44 percent of the labor movement, but a smaller percentage of union leaders. We discuss the importance of having a leadership that is representative of the membership, some of the differences between male and female leadership, and why the labor movement needs more women leaders. In order to promote women’s leadership, we first discuss a four-stage model of how union leaders deve...