Search results for "Sex discrimination"

The effect of sex antidiscriminatory legislation on the variability of female employment in Britain

1985

This paper examines the variability of female employment in the 1970s. It is based on data from the New Earnings Survey so that the behaviour of employment in the manual–nonmanual and manufacturing–nonmanufacturing sectors can be studied separately. At an aggregate level the results are compared to those derived using data from the Department of Employment, to ensure that the results are not simply the product of possible sampling variation of the New Earnings Survey. The findings of this paper, though far from conclusive, indicate that female employment vis-a-vismale employment became more stable after 1976. There may be many reasons for the decrease in relative variability of female emplo…

Il sex discrimination act inglese del 1975 ed il pensiero di Giovanni Criscuoli

2015

L’approvazione da parte del parlamento inglese, e la conseguente entrata in vigore il 12 novembre 1975, di una legge denominata Sex Discrimination Act non poteva lasciare indifferenti gli animi più reattivi nei confronti del riorientamento delle posizioni giuridiche individuali sancito per legge, soprattutto quando si collocava, seppur in differente ambito geografico, nel medesimo programma conditorio di un nuovo statuto dei diritti della persona umana. Ecco perché Giovanni Criscuoli fu, con straordinaria ed impareggiabile prontezza, immediatamente attratto da quel che ben può definirsi un novello manifesto normativo, innalzato – come si legge nel preambolo – “per rendere antigiuridiche alc…

Host sex discrimination by an egg parasitoid on Brassica leaves.

2011

Egg parasitoids are able to find their hosts by exploiting their chemical footprints as host location cues. In nature, the apolar epicuticular wax layer of plants that consists of several classes of hydrocarbons serves as the substrate that retains these contact kairomones. However, experiments on chemical footprints generally have used filter paper as substrate to study insect behavior. Here, we explored the ability of Trissolcus basalis (Scelionidae) females to discriminate between footprint cues left by male and female Nezara viridula (Pentatomidae) on leaves of their host plant Brassica oleracea (broccoli). Furthermore, we analyzed the chemical composition of the outermost wax layer of …

Las políticas de igualdad en el ‘welfare mix’: opiniones y percepciones sobre el papel de las ONGs

2008

This paper has been structured in three areas. In the first one, the author shows the relevance that words and conversations among individuals have on social research, both terms being very important to the well-known sociologist and writer Franco Ferrarotti. In the second part, the author explains the necessary qualitative methodology to be used when analysing a main topic. In the third one, the author analyses the reality of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from the gender perspective to detect if they are or not a reflection of that Spanish reality regarding sex discrimination. Finally, this paper states the challenge the Spanish society needs to face to outweigh sex inequality with…

EC sex equality law in Latvia. Rights of persons with regard to child-birth

2006

Host chemical footprints induce host sex discrimination ability in egg parasitoids

2013

Trissolcus egg parasitoids, when perceiving the chemical footprints left on a substrate by pentatomid host bugs, adopt a motivated searching behaviour characterized by longer searching time on patches were signals are present. Once in contact with host chemical footprints, Trissolcus wasps search longer on traces left by associated hosts rather than non-associated species, and, in the former case, they search longer on traces left by females than males. Based on these evidences, we hypothesized that only associated hosts induce the ability to discriminate host sex in wasps. To test this hypothesis we investigated the ability of Trissolcus basalis, T. brochymenae, and Trissolcus sp. to disti…