Equal Opportunities International: Volume 11 Issue 5

The Free Market Approach to Comparable Worth

Laura B. Pincus

The issue of comparable worth exemplifies the imperfection of market effects. The argument made by proponents of comparable worth is that women earn between 59% to 65% of men's…

Sexual Harassment and MIS Professionals: Results of a Survey

Floyd J. Brock, John P. Kohl

Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favours, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when (1) submission to such conduct is…

Equal Opportunity Measures Weather the Recession

Women are continuing to make progress in the workplace despite the recession. The number of employers in the UK offering career breaks, childcare facilities and parental leave has…

“It's a bit like having kids. You're never the same again”

Christine Wieneke

In 1990, an academic colleague and I received a small grant to undertake a research project1 relating to the practice of equal opportunity in higher education institutions in one…