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How Can Women Escape the Compensation Negotiation Dilemma? Relational Accounts Are One Answer

Policy makers, academics, and media reports suggest that women could shrink the gender pay gap by negotiating more effectively for higher compensation.

Hillary, Tina, and Girls Like Them

Last week, within a 24-hour period, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Tina Fey, the star, producer, writer, and creator of NBC’s “30 Rock,” grandly left their respective stages and said goodbye t

Wartime Sexual Violence: Misconceptions, Implications, and Ways Forward

Wartime rape is neither ubiquitous nor inevitable. The level of sexual violence differs significantly across countries, conflicts, and particularly armed groups.

From Seneca Falls to Stonewall and Back Again

The men did right. Last Thursday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, a man, joined with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, a man, to rescind the 1994 order barring women from combat.

For the Sake of Democracy, Elect Women

First: Thursday’s congressional swearing-in will reflect the stunning success of the Democrats’ ground game at turning out minorities — a strategy that stretched across Native American reservations, c

Informal Employment Revisited: Theories, Data, and Policies

Martha Alter Chen . 2013. “” in special issue of the Indian Journal of Industrial Relations (IJIR) on “Unorganized Workers” guest-edited by Renana Jhabvala. Vol. 48, No. 3, January 2013.

Conceiving Regional Pathways to Prosperity Systems

Book abstract: Education, long the key to opportunity in the United States, has become simply essential to earning a decent living.

Self-Employed Women’s Association of India: A National Trade Union and International Role Model

Claiming Authority: How Women Explain their Ascent to Top Business Leadership Positions

Career stories of 50 female executives from major corporations and high-growth entrepreneurial ventures suggest two alternative accounts of how women legitimize their claims to top leadership position

The Case for Gender Diversity

We commend the efforts of both Harvard Kennedy School students and The Crimson to highlight gender diversity and the critical need to expand the representation of women at the School, elsewhere in edu