KEY POINTS (1) Sexual expression and the desire for parenthood are central to the lives of most people. Acknowledging these aspirations is essential to vindicating the human rights of people living with HIV. (2) Meeting the sexual health needs of HIV positive people is essential to global HIV prevention efforts. (3) Efforts to provide sexual and reproductive health services to HIV-positive peop...

Understanding how various dimensions of social inequality shape the health of individuals and populations poses a key challenge for public health. Guided by ecosocial theory and intersectionality, we used data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth, a national probability sample, to investigate how one dimension of sexual orientation, sex of sexual partners, and race/ethnicity join...

Heterogeneity in wage has been studied extensively in economics. One well-established finding is that often times income inequality is not such a bad thing. There is no better way to motivate the workers to put in effort than incentives that reflect the workers’ productivity. However, income inequality promotes efficiency only as long as a difference in individual productivity is driving a wage...

Despite the Communist government's campaign to narrow the sexual inequality in China since the 1949 Revolution, male dominance and son preference are still evident in many parts of the country. Using retrospective reports on infant and child mortality from the 1985 and 1987 In-Depth Fertility Surveys in Shaanxi, Liaoning and Guangdong provinces of China, the study examines the effects of this p...

Sexual harassment laws have led to important organizational changes in the workplace yet research continues to document resistance to their implementation and backlash against the people who mobilize such laws. Employing experimental research methods, this study proposes and tests a theory specifying the mechanisms through which sexual harassment policies affect gender beliefs. The findings sho...

Abstract We describe how sexual harassment contributes to sex segregation and pay inequality in the labor market. Combining nationally representative survey data administrative data, we show that both wages vary strongly systematically across workplaces. Women self-report more from colleagues managers male-dominated workplaces where are relatively high, men female-dominated low. These patterns ...