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Gender Diversity, Gender in the Boardroom and Gender Quotas

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director represents shareholders or employees during the period ...
Kunze, Astrid, Scharfenkamp, Katrin
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Where Is the Gender in Gendered Language?

Psychological Science, 2001
The purpose of these studies was to examine how women and men react and accommodate to gender-preferential language in e-mail messages. In Experiment 1, participants wrote messages to two assigned “netpals.” These netpals were actually one of the experimenters.
R, Thomson, T, Murachver, J, Green
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Parasuicide, Gender, and Gender Deviance

Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1983
The hypotheses that gender-role nonconformity during childhood is associated with social isolation, which in turn is related to subsequent suicidal feelings and attempts, were tested. These ideas were explored in a four-group sample of homosexual and heterosexual men and women living in San Francisco.
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Gender difference and gender disadvantage

Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 1990
This paper explores the theoretical foundations of American sex discrimination law. Traditional legal frameworks have analyzed gender issues in terms of gender difference. Yet, inder this approach, sex-based differences have been both overlooked and overvalued.
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Gender, gender identification and perceived gender discrimination

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 2015
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of gender and strength of gender identification on employees’ perception of gender discrimination. It also explores whether gender comparison and perceived gender bias against women act as mediators in the above relationships.
Sharon Foley, Hang-yue Ngo, Raymond Loi, Xiaoming Zheng   +3 more
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The process of gendering: gender as a verb

Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Gender is important to the social and cognitive sciences, as evidenced by hundreds of meta-analyses, thousands of studies, and millions of datapoints that examine how gender (as an independent variable) shapes cognition and behavior. In this expansive literature, gender is often understood as a noun - a social category that separates 'men' from 'women'.
Ashley E. Martin, Michael L. Slepian
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GENDER DILEMMAS, GENDER QUESTIONS, AND THE GENDER MANTRA

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1991
This paper discusses the social constructions of gender and the problematic effects of these constructions‐masculine/feminie‐on intimate attachments. It summarizes the aspect of feminist scholarship which revised the traditional developmental paradigm to include a psychology of women and cites recent infant research which re‐describes development as a ...
Marcia Sheinberg, Peggy Penn
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Negotiating Gender: Gender Narratives and Gender Identities

2012
Gender at the Hope in New York City is the focus of this chapter. Eglinton argues that young people used visual material culture (VMC) to make sense of, negotiate, and perform local masculinities and femininities. The author brings in Bruner’s (Acts of meaning.Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1990) ‘narratives’, which she conceives as gender models
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Gender and Parenthood

American Sociological Review, 1984
This chapter examines several demographic trends relevant to parenthood in individual lives and to the social ambiance surrounding childbearing and rearing in contemporary society. A good starting place for understanding change in gender and parenting roles is several demographic trends: Longevity and the sex ration, marriage and fertility, and ...
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Gender anxiety, gender melancholia, gender perversion

Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1998
In this essay, I examine links among gender, sexual attraction, and sexual orientation rooted in the role of loss and mourning in the process of gender identity development. Building on the work of Fast (1984) and Butler (1995), I describe some of the psychological losses inherent in gender identity development and trace their effects on the structure ...
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