The gender wage gap: Extent, trends, and explanations

FD Blau, LM Kahn - Journal of economic literature, 2017 - aeaweb.org
Abstract Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) microdata over the 1980–2010
period, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage …

Sexual harassment and gender inequality in the labor market

O Folke, J Rickne - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We describe how sexual harassment contributes to sex segregation and pay inequality in
the labor market. Combining nationally representative survey data and administrative data …

Has a critical mass of women resulted in gender equity in gynecologic surgery?

CA Heisler, K Mark, J Ton, P Miller… - American journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Gender equity in medicine and surgery has recently received widespread attention. Unlike
surgical specialties that remain predominantly male, the majority of obstetrician …

Gender in Human Resources: Hiding in plain sight

S Ainsworth, A Pekarek - Human resource management …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper argues an important aspect of Human Resources (HR) as an occupation has
been largely overlooked by mainstream and critical scholars alike: its gendered qualities …

The allocation of talent and us economic growth

CT Hsieh, E Hurst, CI Jones, PJ Klenow - Econometrica, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In 1960, 94 percent of doctors and lawyers were white men. By 2010, the fraction was just 62
percent. Similar changes in other highly‐skilled occupations have occurred throughout the …

New perspectives on gender

B Marianne - Handbook of labor economics, 2011 - Elsevier
Psychological and socio-psychological factors are now more commonly discussed as
possible explanations for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We first describe the …

Taste‐based or statistical discrimination: The economics of discrimination returns to its roots

J Guryan, KK Charles - The Economic Journal, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We briefly review the evolution of empirical work on discrimination. We discuss why
traditional regression‐based approaches neither convincingly measure market …

Occupation and gender

P Cortes, J Pan - The Oxford handbook of women and the …, 2018 - books.google.com
Despite the converging roles of men and women in the labor market, occupational
segregation, defined as the tendency of men and women to work in different occupations …

Trends in occupational segregation by gender 1970–2009: Adjusting for the impact of changes in the occupational coding system

FD Blau, P Brummund, AYH Liu - Demography, 2013 - Springer
In this article, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current
Population Survey data to bridge the change in the census occupational coding system that …

When a specialty becomes “women's work”: trends in and implications of specialty gender segregation in medicine

E Pelley, M Carnes - Academic Medicine, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The gender composition of physician specialties varies dramatically with some becoming
increasingly female predominant while others remain overwhelmingly male. In their analysis …