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Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Does Gender Matter?

The representation of women in top corporate officer positions is steadily increasing. However, little is known about the impact this will have. A large literature documents that women are different from men in their choices and in their preferences, but most of this literature relies on samples of college students or workers at lower levels in the corporate hierarchy. If women must be like men...

The Second Glass Ceiling Impedes Women Entrepreneurs

Executive Summary The glass ceiling phenomenon that impedes the advancement of talented women professionals into senior executive roles inside large corporations is widely recognized in society, studied in the management literature, taught in business schools, and tangibly felt by many women executives. Outside the corporate setting, we show that a second glass ceiling exists for women entrepre...

Climbing through medicine's glass ceiling.

1887 quality of care but do not substantially reduce costs among a broad array of patients.3-5 As more empirical evidence comes in, it may become easier to identify specific ways to reduce costs; for now, the possibility and scope of the savings remain unclear. One approach that might improve the cost-effectiveness of disease-management and care-coordination strategies involves more accurately ...

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Gender Wage Discrimination in India: Glass Ceiling or Sticky Floor?

Traditional analysis of gender wage gaps has largely focused on average gaps between men and women, and mean wage decompositions such as the Blinder-Oaxaca (1973) decomposition method. To answer the question of whether there is a " glass ceiling " or a " sticky floor " , i.e. whether wage gaps are higher at the upper or lower ends of the wage distribution, this paper examines the wage gaps acro...