The Gender Pay Gap: Understanding the Numbers

ISBN-13: 9780367430306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 154 str.

Fatma Abdel-Raouf; Patricia M. Buhler

Opis

This book serves as a resource for both the academic and corporate community, building the reader’s awareness of the gender pay gap, its magnitude, ramifications, and providing action plans to address the challenge. This concise guide also provides an eResource with instructor’s manual and PowerPoint slides for each chapter.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Gender Pay Gap and its Evolution over Time  2. The Scope of the Gender Pay Gap  3. A Lifetime Impact: Losses over a Woman’s Working Life  4. Why does the Gender Pay Gap Persist?  5. The Adjusted Gender Pay Gap: Explainable and Unexplainable Factors  6. Closing the Gender Pay Gap: Sooner or Later?  7. The Impact of the Gender Pay Gap: An Economic Imperative  8. Policies and Recommendation to Address the Gender Pay Gap  9. Best Practices: What Can We Learn from Companies with a Small or No Gender Pay Gap?  10. The Global Gender Pay Gap: The State of the Gap and Policies in Different Countries