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Download full textNorman, Obed; Pinder, Patrice J.; Shelley, Mack Clayton, II; Harven, Aletha; Nkusi, Maurice – Online Submission, 2021
This paper contains historical views and will demonstrate how issues related to identity impact the stigmatization and marginalizing that underlie the underrepresentation of Black people in the STEM fields. In this paper, identity is defined within the educational context and a framework is provided for exploring how STEM students and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, African Americans, Racial Bias, Self Concept
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Direct linkMcKinnish, Terra G. – Journal of Human Resources, 2007
As women have entered the work force and occupational sex segregation has declined, workers experience increased contact with the opposite sex on the job. The sex mix a worker encounters on the job should affect the cost of search for alternative mates and therefore the probability of divorce. This paper uses 1990 Census data to calculate the sex…
Descriptors: Divorce, Probability, Marital Status, Gender Differences
Lakdawalla, Darius; Philipson, Tomas – Journal of Human Resources, 2007
We use panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to investigate on-the-job exercise and weight. For male workers, job-related exercise has causal effects on weight, but for female workers, the effects seem primarily selective. A man who spends 18 years in the most physical fitness-demanding occupation is about 25 pounds (14…
Descriptors: Labor Supply, Body Weight, Gender Differences, Exercise
