Organizational mechanisms, and their contexts, leading to gender inequality among stockbrokers in two large brokerages are analyzed. Inequality is the result of gender differences in sales, as both firms use performancebased pay, paying entirely by commissions. This paper develops and tests whether performance-support bias, whereby women receive inferior sales support and sales assignments, cau...

As a concept in gerontology, gender appears as lists of traits learned through socialization when theorized at all. I argue for a framework that theorizes the intersections of relations of gender inequality with those of age. This framework holds that men and women gain resources and bear responsibilities, in relation to one another, by virtue of mundane categorization into naturalized stratifi...

BACKGROUND Although child immunization is regarded as a highly cost-effective lifesaver, about fifty percent of the eligible children aged 12-23 months in India are without essential immunization coverage. Despite several programmatic initiatives, urban-rural and gender difference in child immunization pose an intimidating challenge to India's public health agenda. This study assesses the urban...

Many of the efforts made by organizations to deal with gender inequalities fail have desired impact. This is not only because these are undermined individuals who disagree them, nor do perceive be a problem. Rather, issue that equality practices may embedded in an organizational context where other counteract equality. By means 17-month-long ethnographic study conducted at technical university ...

This study is aimed at analyzing gender inequality in Elizabeth Rudnick’s Novel Mulan. focused on the phenomena of novel, and seen through socio-cultural context. Mulan tells about a young Chinese woman, female warrior from period Northern Southern dynasties. She disguises herself as man to fight. replaces her father war. As first child, burdened with tasks bringing honor family; while, that ti...