THE LIBRARY PROFESSION PROCLAIMS ITSELF to be a proponent of both the Information Age and of equity for women and people of color. Yet certain features of the Information Age appear to be inhospitable to the goals of gender equity and there is a long history of gender stratification, with men favored for top positions in the profession. Structural changes brought about by the Information Age ma...

There is little doubt that the advent of collaborative technologies in recent years has brought some significant changes in the way students learn, communicate, and interact with one another. In recent years, this emergence has sparked increased interest for research into the role and impact of instructional technologies on group learning. Despite the widespread use of different instructional t...

This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework for analysing the degree to which public policies support gender equity in paid work and care. Combining the distinction between commodification and decommodification and the distinction between defamilialisation, supported familialism, and familialism by default our study identifies a number of relevant policies, ranging from services, leave en...

While new empirical findings and theoretical frameworks provide insight into the interrelations between socioeconomic development, gender equity, and low fertility, puzzling exceptions and outliers in these findings call for a more all-encompassing framework to understand the inter-play between these processes. We argue that the pace and onset of development are two important factors to be cons...

This study uses data from married women in 30 nations to examine justice processes involving perceptions of fairness of the division of household labor and satisfaction with family life. Relative deprivation theory suggests that national context—operationalized here as nation-level gender equity—might serve as a comparative referent used by married women when making determinations of the fairne...

THELIBRARY PROFESSION PROCLAIMS ITSELF to be a proponent of both the Information Age and of equity for women and people of color. Yet certain features of the Information Age appear to be inhospitable to the goals of gender equity and there is a long history of gender stratification, with men favored for top positions in the profession. Structural changes brought about by the Information Age may...

This paper explicates a central conflict that can affect science research organizations, the conflict between the anti-bureaucratic stance believed to advance science and concerns for gender equity rooted in the universalist ethos of science. We present a case study of a science research organization, using employment and publication records, a survey of 308 employees, and qualitative interview...

During the last decades research has reported unmotivated differences in the treatment of women and men in various areas of clinical and academic medicine. There is an ongoing discussion on how to avoid such gender bias. We developed a three-step-theoretical model to understand how gender bias in medicine can occur and be understood. In this paper we present the model and discuss its usefulness...

gender equality, equity and women`s empowerment are the essential factors for integral human development and also key factors for all countries to achieve economic, political and social development. the main goal of this paper is a comparative study on women`s status in malaysia and iran as two developing countries, which are similar from different aspects. the method used in this research is c...

OBJECTIVE Greater numbers of women in medicine have not resulted in more women achieving senior positions. Programs supporting the recruitment, promotion, and retention of women in academic medicine could help to achieve greater advancement of more women to leadership positions. Qualitative research was conducted to understand such programs at 23 institutions and, using the social ecological mo...