After the World War II, especially in the early fifties there is an expansion of gender rights. Women are massively … for its rights. Gender means elimination of inequality and promote equality between women and men in all areas of social … life. If we want to achieve gender equality as a whole, it is inevitable to achieve an economic consolidation of the two …

gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage … distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage gap at the mean is 55 percent in 1999-2000 and 49 percent in 2009 … that, in both years, the bulk of the gender wage gap is unexplained, i.e. possibly discriminatory. They also reveal that …

This paper examines the ongoing impact of gender pay gap transparency legislation using a sudden COVID-19-induced …, reporting organisations have a 6% lower gender pay gap a year later. This is driven by a relative increase in females in the top … hypothesis that ongoing reporting is most effective in organisations with weaker pre-existing pressures to narrow their gender …

We study the 2011 Austrian Pay Transparency Law, which requires firms above a size threshold to publish internal … reports on the gender pay gap. Using an event-study design, we show that the policy had no discernible effects on male and … female wages, thus leaving the gender wage gap unchanged. The effects are precisely estimated and we rule out that the policy …

employees. They might be more aware of the societal debate about gender discrimination and "aim higher" in setting their …This paper examines gender differences in perceptions of the fairness of one's own pay. Theoretically, we draw on two … paradox"), and on perceived discrimination among ethnic minorities ("integration paradox"). Empirically, we depart from …

The past half century has witnessed widespread gender convergence across many labor market outcomes, including hours … preferences, discrimination, and technologies. Changes in the employment preferences of married women are the most important … factor, explaining 59% of the rise in segregation. These changes in preferences also reduce the gender earnings gap because …

This paper estimates the raw and adjusted gender pay gap in Ireland between 2011 and 2018, a period of austerity … measures and recovery from the Great Recession. Using survey data sources linked to administrative information on earnings, we … show that the raw gender wage gap across the wage distribution has not changed much over this period: it is larger for …