Deadline: 7 August 2014
The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) Journal of the Social Sciences is accepting articles for its special issue on the changing roles and status of women and the effects on society and the economy. Authors are requested to submit abstracts in the first phase. Selected abstracts will be invited to submit full articles/papers.
The selected papers will be published in the upcoming special journal and authors will be paid $1,000 honorarium each when the issue is published. Authors of invited papers will come together for a meeting on 9 January 2015 in New York, USA.
Article Themes/Topics
- Economic Equality and Labor Market Outcomes
- Role of labor market and educational policies in promoting or holding back change
- Changes in wage inequality between women and men
- Gender segregation of occupations and industries (including STEM fields) and changes in women’s share of top positions in for-profit and non-profit organizations
- Labor supply of women and men
- Gender differences in education and labor market experience
- Possible reasons for unexplained wage and differentials including, among others, labor market discrimination and preferences for family
- Gender gap in poverty
- Intimate and Family Relationships, Bargaining Power and Implications for Children
- Economic and social functions of marriage and the living circumstances of children
- Evaluating changes in marriage, cohabitation, and divorce rates over time
- Changes in assertive matching, including changes in valuations of different traits by prospective mates over time
- Changes in childbearing and childlessness, changes in the amount of time women spend in domestic labor and child care, in the division of labor between women and men in these tasks, and in the motherhood penalty in wages and career attainment
- Political, Legal, and Cultural Change
- Changing influence of women on politics (and consequences for law and social policy), changes in the electoral power of women (including the gender gap in voting), and changes in women’s representation in legislatures and positions of power
- Changes in the ways that gender is included (or excluded from special consideration) in law and social policy
- Issues of sexual violence, intimidation, harassment, and interpersonal equality or the extent to which the risk and perception of interpersonal intimidation is declining (or increasing) as a consequence of women’s changing social and economic status and in society
- Changes in perceptions of gender identity (and related issues such as feminism and gender essentialism) that might develop as a consequence of women’s changing status
Eligibility Criteria
- Submissions must be original work and not published previously in part or in full.
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