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Mandatory family-leave legislation: the hidden costs
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Deborah Walker
Country: United States
E-mail: librarian@cato.org

If the United States offered a family-leave benefit to their employees, would this benefit women or merely place costly demands on employers, forcing them to decrease employment opportunities, especially for women? Walker provides the free market analysis. (1999)

Value and opportunity: the issue of comparable pay for comparable worth
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Deborah Walker
Country: United States
E-mail: librarian@cato.org

Do jobs really have an intrinsic value irrespective of the market that can be determined by using job-evaluation systems? Walker answers with a resounding and well researched "no!" Argued from a free market, natural rights perspective. (1984)

Equal opportunity denied: Case studies of nine victims of affirmative action
Source: Claremont Institute
Author: Tom McClintock and Steven McCarthy
State: CA, Country: United States

Women's Figures: An illustrated guide to the economic progress of women in America
Source: AEI/IWF
Author: Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba
Country: United States

Detailed summary of a study finding that: "For three decades, women have been moving steadily upward in the American work force. ... This book uses extensive data to demonstrate that systematic discrimination against women in the workplace has essentially been eradicated in the United States." The full monograph is available for sale. (04/99)

Title IX's Pyrrhic victory
Source: Reason
Author: Michael Lynch
Country: United States

The quest for "gender equity" is killing men’s athletic programs. (04/01)

How advantage becomes discrimination
Source: National Association of Scholars
Country: United States

"Female faculty ... continue to cite the underrepresenation of women among new hires as proof positive of discrimination. They conveniently forget to point out that women are also underrepresented among applicants. Two NAS members collect numbers from three universities--and find women anything but underrepresented among new hires." (02/02)

The wage gap myth
Source: NCPA
Author: Denise Venable
Country: United States

"When women behave in the workplace as men do, the wage gap between them is small. June O'Neill, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, found that among people ages 27 to 33 who have never had a child, women's earnings approach 98 percent of men's." (04/16/02)

Gaining ground: women, welfare reform and work
Source: NCPA
Author: June E. O'Neill and M. Anne Hill
Country: United States

Between passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1996 and June 2001, the number of families on welfare declined by 53 percent. Contrary to the expectations of many welfare reform critics, most of the women heading these families went to work. (Adobe Acrobat) (02/02)

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