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What’s the Difference Between a “Gender Quota” and “Gender Balance”?

What’s the Difference Between a “Gender Quota” and “Gender Balance”? Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, writing for the Harvard Business Review Blog Network, describes it this way: Most companies looking to balance genders in their workforces set a target for the number of women in the organization. Royal Dutch Shell, for example, has committed … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
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Australia tackles the thorny question of quotas

Issues & Causes / Feminism : Feministing (2 years ago)

As I mentioned briefly yesterday, the question of whether to introduce quotas to speed gender parity in corporate Australia has been in the news of late. Governor General Quentin Bryce, a long-time advocate for gender equality, said... Read Post

Tait on “Do Patents Have Gender?” by Dan Burk

Issues & Causes / Feminism : Feminist Law Professors (2 years ago)

Allison Tait, a Gender Equity and Policy Postdoctoral Associate with the Yale Women Faculty Form has posted a review of Dan Burk’s piece, Do Patents Have Gender?  Dr. Tait writes: While Burk would like to separate gender realities f... Read Post

Feministe Feedback: Reading for an Eight-Year-Old Exploring Her Gender?

Issues & Causes / Feminism : Feministe (3 years ago)

A reader writes in asking for some assistance: We always speak freely with our daughter about things like the difference between sex and gender and we try to emphasize that she is free to define her own gender in a manner in which s... Read Post


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