For Women Smokers, the Gender Gap Is Narrowing

Career Attainment among Healthcare Executives: Is the Gender Gap Narrowing?

Health care occupations are expected to be among the fastest growing professions in the next ten years. With such incredible growth expected in employment and wages, and with women’s participation in the industry remaining strong, are women in the health care industry, particularly those in health care administration, experiencing a narrowing of the gender gap? This paper briefly reviews variou...

Narrowing the gap.

Since 1981 AIDS has illuminated, like a roving searchlight, a series of ethical questions, which extend far beyond the apparently narrow limits of one disease. It has revealed, one by one, human attitudes and behaviours that were previously unquestioned, or unobserved based on unidentified but shaky pre-suppositions. This commentary oVers two contrasting perspectives on the problems facing deve...

Narrowing the Nutrition Gap:

Is the Gap More Than Gender?

This study investigated the relationships among gender, gender role orientation (i.e., attitudes toward the gendered separation of roles at work and at home), and earnings. A multilevel model was conceptualized in which gender role orientation and earnings were within-individual variables that fluctuate over time (although predictors of between-individual differences in gender role orientation ...

The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis

Using Census and Current Population Survey annual earnings data spanning 1959 through 1999 we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes in the relative slopes of men’s and women’s age-earnings profiles, versus changes across cohorts in relative wage levels. We find that changes in relative slopes account for about one-third of the narrowing ...