Session 45: Comparative Perspectives on Gender Inequality

Thursday, March 30 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Santa Barbara C Lobby Level

1.	Gender Inequality: An Assessment of World Trends in Economic, Political, Health, and Educational Gender Differences  •  Shawn F. Dorius, Pennsylvania State University

2.	Gender Bias against Female Children in India: Regional Differences and their Implications for MDGs  •  Perianayagam Arokiasamy, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Jalandhar Pradhan, Aga Khan Health Service, India (AKHS,I)

3.	Disempowered by Whom? Gender vs. Generation  •  Mitali Sen, University of Maryland; Sonya Rastogi, University of Maryland

4.	Occupational Segregation in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Interplay of Gender, Race, and Place  •  Sangeeta Parashar, University of Maryland

5.	The Concept of Shapley Decomposition and the Study of Occupational Segregation  •  Jacques Silber, Bar-Ilan University; Joseph Deutsch, Bar-Ilan University; Yves Flueckiger, Université de Genève

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