development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …

-time jobs contributes to women's lower pay separately from gender differences in human capital attributes. … 1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed … differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and part-timers arises because of self-selection of women who can command higher …

reveal gender differences in the areas of both human and social capital. In the area of human capital, women were less likely … women engaged in networking activities, there is some evidence that their networking strategies were less targeted than … those of men. Consistent with prior research, women entrepreneurs had lower levels of “self-efficacy” or confidence in their …

There is a widespread belief that women are better at selecting gifts than men; however, this claim has not been … assessed on the basis of objective criteria. The current studies do exactly that and show that women do indeed make better gift … selections for others, regardless of the gender of the receiver and the type of relationship between the giver and receiver. We …

body of evidence which highlights the discrimination experienced by women working in the construction industry. There is …, however, a paucity of research exploring gender differences in occupational health and well-being within construction. The … current research utilizes standardized measures of occupational health and well-being to identify any gender …

) and Human Rights in Nicaragua, the World Bank, in coordination with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health, the Pan American … of the ongoing Family Community Health World Bank project. To gain a better understanding of the SRH and Human Rights in …

theorize the entanglement of sex and gender in human health research and articulate good practice guidelines for assessing the … differences between and among men and women. There are two basic tenets underlying this project. The first is that sex itself is … not a biological mechanism and the second is that “sex” and “gender” are entangled, and analyses should proceed by …

This study tests five hypotheses concerning trends in gender differences in accidents mortality and accident …-related behavior, using data for the US, UK, France, Italy, and Japan, 1950-98. As predicted by the Convergence Hypothesis, gender …, for many types of accidents mortality, gender differences were stable or increased; these trends often resulted from the …