Union Commitment: Is There a Gender Gap?

Is There a Gender Gap in Social Media Metrics?

The gender gap in science has been the focus of many analyses which have, for the most part, documented lower research productivity and citation impact for papers authored by female researchers. Given the rise of scholarly use of social media to disseminate scientific production and the healthy proportion of women on these sites, further investigation of potential gender disparities in social m...

Is there still a gender gap in cystic fibrosis?

OBJECTIVES Previous studies have shown that female patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) have a significantly poorer prognosis than male patients. Such studies investigating gender-related differences have generally combined data from several centers. The aim of this study was to determine whether with modern aggressive treatment of CF this is still true when care is standardized within a single c...

Is There a Gap in the Gap? Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap

In this paper, we investigate regional differences in the gender pay gap both theoretically and empirically. Within a spatial oligopsony model, we show that more densely populated labour markets are more competitive and constrain employers’ ability to discriminate against women. Utilising a large administrative data set for western Germany and a flexible semi-parametric propensity score matchin...

Women’s Union Leadership: Closing the Gender Gap

Women comprise 44 percent of the labor movement, but a smaller percentage of union leaders. We discuss the importance of having a leadership that is representative of the membership, some of the differences between male and female leadership, and why the labor movement needs more women leaders. In order to promote women’s leadership, we first discuss a four-stage model of how union leaders deve...

There Is Power in a Union