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20 Cards in this Set
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Which power is in the home or private sphere of life: micro or macro?
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Micro
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Which power is in the economic and political or public sphere of life: micro or macro?
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Macro
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What do feminist economics seek to broaden?
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The study of economics to include the importance of women's unpaid household and care labor to economics women's labor in the informal sector and the impact of economic politics on women
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What is "under the table" and "off the books" employment such as small enterprises and trading and selling at markets?
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Informal labor sector
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Formal labor sector
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Where people get a paycheck and pay taxes
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What is the gender-responsive budget analysis?
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It examines how national budgets impact women and girls differently than men and boys
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What surveys provide information on how women and men, and girls and boys, spend their time in both market and nonmarket work?
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Time-use surveys
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What perspective emphasizes that the division of household labor reflects the relative economic power of women and men
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Relative resources perspective
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Gender perspective on household labor
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Argues that household labor is a symbolic representation of gender relations, not merely a matter of who has time and who has the money
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What are maternity protection measures?
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They include policies and laws that ensure that pregnant employees will not face employment discrimination, that they will not be exposed to health hazards, that they will have time off to have children and return to the job without discrimination, and that they will be permitted breast-feeding breaks
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What is the gender pay gap?
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The difference in average wages or earnings between men and women
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Gender job segregation or Gender occupational segregation
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Employed women and men tend to work in different jobs and employment sectors and men hold the higher positions compared to women in the same job
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Which type of gender occupational segregation refers to how, within occupations, there is a jierarchy of jobs and women tend to be more highly represented in lower-ranked, lower-paying positions han men within the same occupation: verticle or horizontal occupational segregation?
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Verticle
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Which type of gender occupational segregation refers to the tendency for occupations mainly held by men to have substantially higher pay rates and status as compared to those mainly held by women: verticle or horizontal?
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Horizontal
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What is human capital approach?
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Refers to any attributes a person has that contribute to her productivity including education, skills, and focus
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The term used to refer to the various barriers that prevent qualified women from advancing upward in their organizations into management power positions
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Glass ceiling
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What is meant by the term concrete ceiling?
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The dual burden of racism and sexism in organizations; leads to low numbers of minority women in managerial positions
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The incompatibility between the female gender role and the leadership role
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Role Congruity theory
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What is double jeopardy?
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When ethnic minority and migrant women are at increased risk for a combination of racial and sexual harassment
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Sex-role spillover
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A theory that suggests that traditional expectations and relationships between the genders overflow into the work-place although they are irrelevant or inappropriate
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