Attention to gender equality is an important issue in the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This book analyses wage inequality and pay gap China from a temporal spatial point of view, using surveys available 1995 present. Due their rapid growth since country's entry into free market economy, analysis carried out this seems crucial. Our study highlights that currently facing serious problem...

This paper reexamines the relationship between occupational sex segregation and the gender gap in earnings. While there is no dispute that predominately female occupations pay less than male occupations, there is considerable disagreement as to whether this wage gap actually reflects gender discrimination in the labor market or productivity differences among workers. Several recent papers have ...

This paper analyses a dimension of the gender pay gap that has received so far a limited attention and that concerns not the level but the form of pay. The econometric analysis we performed has considered a fairly homogenous type of occupation represented by family management and with a great bargaining power in setting their rewards. With this strategy we aim at estimating gender disparities n...

Despite increases of women in the labor force, females are largely underrepresented in the American IT workforce. Among the challenges that managers face in addressing the under representation of women in the IT workforce is the identification of an appropriate theory as a basis for understanding data about gender and IT in order to reverse the gender imbalance. Hence, the purpose of this chapt...

The article addresses the subject of gender pay gap, providing an in-depth analysis decision on merits European Committee Social Rights regarding complaint no. 136/2016, against Portugal. To this end, it renders overview most relevant international and provisions matter explanation Portuguese legal regime. sociological reasons for disparity are also discussed, as well difficulties associated wi...