Women, professorship and unequal opportunities

Unequal Opportunities and Social Inheritance

Ideology and myth do not die easily. Even with decades of cumulative social scientific evidence to the contrary, many stubbornly believe that we live in a land of equal opportunities. We have witnessed a half century of educational expansion and social reform and, yet, individuals’ life chances remain as powerfully determined by their social origins as in the epoch of our grandfathers. This is ...

Unequal Educational Opportunities Due to Gender Issues among Nursing Students

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Unequal opportunities and human capital formation

This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibriummodel where individuals have different endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relation between inequality of opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in human capital formation. Using numerical solutions we study how the endogenous variables of the model respond...

MAINZ Visiting Professorship Lecture Series

Ebola crisis: the unequal impact on women and children's health.

www.thelancet.com/lancetgh Vol 3 March 2015 e130 in states that are failing to provide for the most basic needs of their citizens. Making long-term investments to ensure appropriate care for women and children’s health under normal circumstances and in future crises that will inevitably occur is an ethical and public health imperative that global and national health communities need to embrace ...