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- Gender pay gap
- The common gap between male and female earnings with women gernerally receiving less pay.
- Glass ceiling
- Invisible barriers to the promotion and advancement of women into higher status, power positions.
- Sticky floor
- The idea that women are often relegated to the lowest paying jobs under the poorest work conditions.
- Informal labor sector
- Uncounted,"under the table" employment such as trading and selling at markets and work done on a contract basis in the home.
- Formal labor sector
- Formal employment counted by governments and included in national accounting system.
- Gender-based household divisions of labor
- Describes the tendency for women to do more of the core household tasksand childcare.
- Second shift
- Term describing how employed women frequently work one shift in paid work and another shift doing houshold labor before or after paid work.
- Gender occupational segregation
- Explains the pay gap in terms of the fact that women tend to work in lower-paying sectors of the economy and hold lower ranks within the same occupational group.
- Gender wage discrimination
- Paying women less because women's work is devalued, bacause it is assumed that her income is supplementary to her husband's, or because employers can get away with it and it increase their profits.
- Equal pay legislation
- Law prohibiting gender pay discriminaiton.
- Affirmative action
- Programs and policies that promote the entrance of women into better paying, tradition ally male job.
- Gender harassment
- Type of sexual harassment characterized by verbal and nonverbal behavior that conveys insulting, hostile, and degrading attitudes toward women.
- Unwanted sexual attention
- Type of sexaul harassment characterized by suggestive comments about a woman's body as well as unsolicited and unreciprocated sexual advances such as repeated requests for a kiss, a date or sex
- Sexual coercion
- or Quid pro quo, Sexual harrassment....type of sexual harassment where sex is required as a condition of employment or job reward.
- Quid pro quo sexual harassment
- Sexual harrassment....type of sexual harassment where sex is required as a condition of employment or job reward.
- Sex-role spillover theory
- Suggests that sexual harassment occurs because traditional relationships between the genders overflow into the workplace.
- Organizational tolerance
- The degree to which an organization is perceived by employees to be insensitive or tolerant of sexaul harassment, affects its frequency and severity.
- Self-employed sector
- Another names for the informal labor sector intended to highlight its importance to economies.
- Women’s micro-and small-scale enterprises
- Another names for the informal labor sector intended to highlight its importance to economies.
- Women entrepreneurs
- women who start their own business.
- Legal literacy
- Knowledge of one'legal rights and the means to defend those rights.
- Third world/developing nation
- Nations that are less or non idustrialized nations, also called the south, due to their location principally in the southern hemisphere
- Development
- the process of economic, political or social growth in a nation.
- Women in development projects
- Development approach that includes women through income-generation projects, labor saving tech nologies and improving women's local resouce access.
- Income-generating projects
- A type of Women in development projects,intended to provide opportunties for women to make money.
- Sustainable development
- Development that promotes human well being and dignity while regenerating and protecting the natuaral resouce base.