The purpose of this study is to investigate legislation and leading cases concerning positive discrimination in the European Union, with a particular focus on the recent debate about the most radical positive action measure: the implementation of women's quotas by supranational legislation. This...

Despite gains in female representation in early career stages, large gender gaps persist atthe higher ends of the income distribution. This paper uses an experiment to study whetheraffirmative action, which has been used mainly in early career stages, could have a hiddencost. Specifically, by...

Condition of women in India has not been historically very good. As is evident from Manusmriti, women did not have much rights as compared to men. Further, the women are physically weaker than men and due to this fact also, they have been exploited. Due to such continuous unfavorable treatment,...