The Cost of Being Female: Critical Comment on Block

Women currently earn 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. Explanations abound for why, exactly, this wage gap exists. One of the more potent justifications attributes this pay differential to the unequal effects of marriage on the sexes: the marital asymmetry hypothesis. However, even when marit...

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Main Author: Sayers, Rachel C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2012
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 106, Issue: 4, Pages: 519-524
Further subjects:B Discrimination
B Feminism
B Sexism
B pay gap
B Marital asymmetry
B Wage differentials
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