Towards Equal Opportunity Employment For Women in New Zealand

Education and Marriage Decisions of Japanese Women and the Role of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act

Prompted by concordant upward trends in both the university advancement rate and the unmarried rate for Japanese women, this paper investigates whether the Equal Employment Opportunity Act (EEOA), which was passed in 1985, affected women’s marriage decisions either directly or via their decisions to pursue university education. To this end, we estimate a model that treats education and marriage...

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By sequencing tens of millions of TCRa transcripts from naive mouse CD8 T cells, Genolet et al (2012) show that the TCRa repertoire is at least as diverse as the TCRb repertoire. This overturns a long held view in the field that recombination of the Tcra locus occurs in a co-ordinate sequential bidirectional manner that relies on proximity of Va and Ja gene segments. The observation that rearra...

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Colorectal cancer in women: an equal opportunity disease.

Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in developed countries. For women, it is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths behind lung and breast cancers. Women have the same risk as men, and the lifetime risk of the development of colorectal cancer is 6%. One in 17 woman will have colorectal cancer diagnosed. There are risk factors unique to women, includi...

Stress testing in women: sexual discrimination or equal opportunity?

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among women in the majority of industrialized countries, accounting for 54% of total cardiovascular mortality in the United States. Between the ages of 45 and 64, one in nine women develops symptoms of some form of cardiovascular disease; the ratio climbs to one in three women after age 65. The number of cardiovascular deaths is increasing in...