Young Professionals

Competitiveness and the gender gap among young business professionals

Although the gender gap in earnings has been decreasing over time, it still persists in many professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as an important explanation for the remaining earnings differential. Using a laboratory experiment to measure competitiveness, this paper investigates whether this measure explains the gender gap in earnings in a samp...

Organization management system affecting extension professionals motivation

Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors

This paper assesses the relative importance of various explanations for the gender gap in career outcomes for highly-educated workers in the U.S. corporate and financial sectors. The careers of MBAs, who graduated between 1990 and 2006 from a top U.S. business school, are studied to understand how career dynamics differ by gender. Although male and female MBAs have nearly identical (labor) inco...

Adolescent and young adult oncology training for health professionals: a position statement.

We outline here the essential elements of training for health care professionals who work with adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients with cancer. Research is emerging that a number of cancers manifest themselves differently in the AYA population, both in terms of biology and treatment response. In addition, there are a number of issues uniquely experienced by the AYA population that are cri...

Gender Still Matters: Effects of Workplace Discrimination on Employment Schedules of Young Professionals

The influx of women into the legal profession has significantly changed the landscape of legal practice. Women lawyers today no longer face the challenges to entering the legal profession they encountered thirty years ago. However, despite these advancements, research continues to demonstrate that there are still gender-based issues women have to face in the legal workplace. Among these issues ...