Andrea Lawlor
Biographic Data
| ID | 366080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Lawlor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawlor |
| SIGNATURE | LAWLOR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9261-993X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
How Do Immigration Policies Affect Voter Support for Low-Skilled Immigrants? Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Countries depend on both high- and low-skilled immigration to meet economic needs. But most voters prefer high-skilled immigrants, despite the fact that multiple economic sectors structurally depend on low-skilled immigrants. In this paper, we examine voter preferences toward low-skilled immigrants as one barrier to effective immigration policy, even in political regimes where immigration is the consequence of highly coordinated or “planned” poli…
Behavioural insights policies in Canada: Support for nudges vs nudging
Over the past twenty years, behavioural insights and nudges have gained prominence in public policy design. Public opinion research on this subject has largely considered two questions: (1) who supports nudges? and (2) where is support for nudges strongest? Using data from two nationally representative surveys fielded in 2023 and 2024 (N = 2020 and N = 1991), we take up these questions in Canada—a ‘principled pro-nudge’ country. We measure opinio…
Affective polarization and institutional confidence in Canada
Confidence in political institutions has reportedly been in decline over the past 40 years. Yet there is heterogeneity in how this phenomenon has manifested across countries, political institutions and people with different partisan commitments. The increasing antagonism towards opposition partisans – known as affective polarization – may hasten this decline, undermining types of institutional confidence that were perceived to be more durable. Th…
Identity politics and trade preferences: How the Gendered and Racialised Effects of Trade Matter
Negative Spotlight: Event-Driven Effects on Support for the Canadian Supreme Court
Longstanding public support for the Supreme Court of Canada is well-documented and contributes to its public legitimacy. However, the sources of this support and how vulnerable it may be to political factors or negative coverage of events are not well understood. In February of 2023, Justice Russell Brown took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court following a conduct complaint under review by the Canadian Judicial Council. Justice Brown retir…
The Canadian Charter’s Notwithstanding Clause as an Institutionalized Mechanism of Court Curbing
Recent interest in the use of section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has renewed political and scholarly attention to this unique device of constitutional politics. The notwithstanding clause is notable for being an opt-out clause exclusively available for government use, positioning it above the courts on key areas of rights. This article argues that the notwithstanding clause can be understood properly as an institutionalized…
Crisis management: Personal financial well-being and public attitudes toward government intervention
Purpose Crises precipitate strong fiscal responses by government – sometimes toward austerity, other times toward renewed social spending. This variation in approaches to crisis handling has the potential to highlight factors that drive public opinion toward government interventions that may be quite different from those in non-crisis times. This study aims to discuss the aforementioned issues. Design/methodology/approach This article brings toge…
Whiny, Fake, and I Don't Like Her Hair: Gendered Assessments of Mayoral Candidates
Municipal mayoral elections present a compelling puzzle: what happens when gendered stereotypes about level of government conflict with those about type of office? Although local politics is viewed as communal and more feminine, the mayoral office is a prominent, prestigious position of political leadership that voters may perceive as more masculine. We intervene by analyzing open-ended comments about 32 mayoral candidates from a survey of 14,438…
Behavioural Insights and Public Policy in Canada
Much of political science rests on assumptions about how policy makers and citizens behave. However, questions remain about how public policy can improve the government–citizen relationship. In this research note, we present behavioural insights (BI) as one way to address this gap. First, we argue that BI can be strategically used both to alleviate administrative burdens and to enhance citizen experience. Second, we argue that BI interventions ca…
No Male Comparators: The Doubling Up of Discrimination on Pay Equity
Women seeking pay equity in women-dominated professions often encounter structural barriers to equity in the form of the “no male comparator” (NMC) analysis built into pay equity legislation. NMC is a symptom of larger societal inequities in the workforce, but it also serves as a catalyst to further entrench discrimination, which has the effect of reducing the societal value accorded to women-predominant professions. In this article, I engage in …
Public Support for Canadian Courts: Understanding the Roles of Institutional Trust and Partisanship
Public support is a critical component of any court’s institutional legitimacy. Understanding the roots and durability of such support is therefore crucial. This article uses survey data to explore public attitudes towards Canadian courts from 2008 to 2019. This time period is especially relevant given the comparatively tumultuous relationship between the Supreme Court and the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2006–2015). …
Numbers and Images: Representations of Immigration and Public Attitudes about Immigration in Canada
Perceptions of numbers (numerical estimations of migrant flows) and mental images (beliefs about characteristics and motives of immigrants) have been shown to be important predictors of cross-national immigration attitudes. However, this finding has seldom been verified in Canada. As a result, we know little about how Canadians estimate the amount and type of migrants coming into the country, what drives the generation of these numbers and images…
Deservingness in context: Perspectives toward refugees and asylum seekers in Canada
What drives the evaluations of extending protections and services to refugees and asylum seekers? In dialogue with research on attitudes towards refugees, in particular, work pointing to the importance of deservingness cues for refugee evaluation, this article explores the conditions under which Canadians are willing to provide the right to stay and access to migrant-specific services to refugees and asylum seekers in Canada. Taking into consider…
Out of an Abundance of Caution: Covid-19 and Health Risk Frames in Canadian News Media
Although Canada's first documented case of COVID-19 appeared in mid-January 2020, it was not until March that messaging about the need to contain the virus heightened. In this research note, we document the use of the media's construction of risk through framing in the early stages of the pandemic. We analyze three dimensions of the health risk narratives related to COVID-19 that dominated Canadians’ concerns about the virus. To capture these nar…
My only solution is to work later and sleep less: Exploring the perspectives of parenting in academia in Ontario, Canada
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of parents who have full professorial positions (in faculties of engineering and nursing) in universities in Ontario, Canada, with a particular focus on the ways in which gender shapes professors' parenting experiences. Design/methodology/approach We employ a case study methodology involving quantitative and qualitative data collected from a survey emailed to full professors in Ontar…
An “Opportunity” for Policy Recycling? A Critical Analysis of the Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy
In this article, we critically explore the Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) with attention to whether, and how, elements of the strategy reflect indicators of policy recycling. Policy recycling here refers to instances where policymakers use previously designed and/or funded programs for a broader policy program or programmatic strategy. We draw from the analytic framework for policy recycling we first introduced in examining the PRS in …
Political Elites in Canada: Power and Influence in Instantaneous Times
Political Elites in Canada offers a timely look at Canadian politics and how power brokers are adapting to a fast-paced digital media environment. Elite power structures are changing worldwide, and the rise and fall of political influencers permeates national headlines. In many areas, traditional elites are losing authority over prevailing social, economic, and political structures. Communication between and among elites and citizens is having dr…
Political Elites in the Age of Digital Media
Policy versus practice: Third party behaviour in Canadian elections
Third party campaigners are widely noted to have the power to change the landscape of an election. Yet, in Canada, we know little about whether there is consistency behind third parties' motivations, expectations and strategies, or how these motivations parse with those of the legislators who are attempting to regulate their behaviour. This article explores these factors using data from Canadian federal elections from 2004 to 2015. Merging qualit…
Canada's twenty-first century discovery of China: Canadian media coverage of China and Japan
Chinese government officials and some Canadian foreign policy experts have challenged the content and tone of Canadian media's coverage of China. Canadian media coverage is thought to negatively bias public opinion and thereby constrain foreign policy choices available to policymakers. Scholars of Canada–Japan relations worry that decreasing media attention could have longer term effects on bilateral ties. Through an analysis of over 30,000 artic…
Framing trans-border energy transportation: The case of Keystone XL
Increasing discussion over the safety of natural resource extraction and transportation to facilitate international energy needs has given rise to controversy over the prospect of large quantities of bitumen and crude oil flowing through trans-national pipelines. This debate, incorporating the voices of industry, government and advocacy groups, has gained traction in the news media, alternately framed as an environmental, economic, trade, human r…
Risk‐Based Policy Narratives
The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) was developed to provide theoretical and empirical grounding for inquiries into questions about the interplay between communication and policy processes. In our previous work, we argued for the inclusion of framing analysis within the broader NPF structure in order to account for the ways in which problems, solutions, and characters are portrayed to citizens. The study presented here seeks to further develop t…
Comparing third party policy frameworks: Regulating third party electoral finance in Canada and the United Kingdom
Deciding how to regulate money during elections is a critical policy choice faced by every democracy. Over the last two decades, both the United Kingdom and Canada have implemented substantial revisions to their electoral laws, including policy measures designed to regulate third party spending. Despite similar policy objectives, the countries’ approaches to regulation differ, leaving the potential for significant variation in third party spendin…
Realising our (neoliberal) potential? A critical discourse analysis of the Poverty Reduction Strategy in Ontario, Canada
We examine the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) launched in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province. Using corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, we explore the dominant discourses that emerge in a genre chain produced by the Government of Ontario, including the initial 2008 PRS, annual reports and the 2014–2019 recontextualised PRS. Six key discourses surfaced: social exclusion, social inclusion, economic benefit or social investme…
The Politics of Judicial Appointment: Do Party Connections Impede the Appointment of Women to Canada's Federally Appointed Courts
The influence of party connection on the selection of judges has long been an issue in Canada This article considers whether such connections adversely affect the appointment of women judges to federally appointed courts. The answer appears to be yes. Using political donations as a proxy for party connection, the data analyzed here suggest that as the number of appointees with connections to the government rises, the number of women appointees fa…
Framing Immigration in the Canadian and British News Media
Despite an extensive dialogue on the subject of immigration, there has been little systematic cross-national investigation into the framing of immigration in the news media. Understanding the evolution of frames is an important piece of how we conceive of the link between the public's political priorities and policy makers’ responses. While the multi-directional relationships that exist between media, public policy and public opinion often pose c…
Media in the Policy Process: Using Framing and Narratives to Understand Policy Influences
Policy scholarship has long sought to understand the role of knowledge and information in the policy process. Of the actors, institutions, and resources involved in shaping policy processes and outcomes, media and narratives have been incorporated into empirical policy scholarship and theories with varying success. The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) is a framework through which scholars can bring analysis of narratives into studies of policy ma…
Risk‐Based Policy Narratives
The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) was developed to provide theoretical and empirical grounding for inquiries into questions about the interplay between communication and policy processes. In our previous work, we argued for the inclusion of framing analysis within the broader NPF structure in order to account for the ways in which problems, solutions, and characters are portrayed to citizens. The study presented here seeks to further develop t…
Local and National Accounts of Immigration Framing in a Cross-national Perspective
The aim of this article is to identify whether differences exist in local and national news framing of immigration. Using 12 years (2001–2012) of print media data from 15 Canadian and British print media sources, this article presents the first attempt to look for systematic differences in cross-city, within-country and cross-national framing on the subject of immigration. Contextual variables such as change in the unemployment rate and in the ra…
Deservingness in context: Perspectives toward refugees and asylum seekers in Canada
What drives the evaluations of extending protections and services to refugees and asylum seekers? In dialogue with research on attitudes towards refugees, in particular, work pointing to the importance of deservingness cues for refugee evaluation, this article explores the conditions under which Canadians are willing to provide the right to stay and access to migrant-specific services to refugees and asylum seekers in Canada. Taking into consider…
Whiny, Fake, and I Don't Like Her Hair: Gendered Assessments of Mayoral Candidates
Municipal mayoral elections present a compelling puzzle: what happens when gendered stereotypes about level of government conflict with those about type of office? Although local politics is viewed as communal and more feminine, the mayoral office is a prominent, prestigious position of political leadership that voters may perceive as more masculine. We intervene by analyzing open-ended comments about 32 mayoral candidates from a survey of 14,438…
Numbers and Images: Representations of Immigration and Public Attitudes about Immigration in Canada
Perceptions of numbers (numerical estimations of migrant flows) and mental images (beliefs about characteristics and motives of immigrants) have been shown to be important predictors of cross-national immigration attitudes. However, this finding has seldom been verified in Canada. As a result, we know little about how Canadians estimate the amount and type of migrants coming into the country, what drives the generation of these numbers and images…
Realising our (neoliberal) potential? A critical discourse analysis of the Poverty Reduction Strategy in Ontario, Canada
We examine the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) launched in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province. Using corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, we explore the dominant discourses that emerge in a genre chain produced by the Government of Ontario, including the initial 2008 PRS, annual reports and the 2014–2019 recontextualised PRS. Six key discourses surfaced: social exclusion, social inclusion, economic benefit or social investme…
Understanding third-party advertising: An analysis of the 2004, 2006 and 2008 Canadian elections
Behavioural Insights and Public Policy in Canada
Much of political science rests on assumptions about how policy makers and citizens behave. However, questions remain about how public policy can improve the government–citizen relationship. In this research note, we present behavioural insights (BI) as one way to address this gap. First, we argue that BI can be strategically used both to alleviate administrative burdens and to enhance citizen experience. Second, we argue that BI interventions ca…
Public Support for Canadian Courts: Understanding the Roles of Institutional Trust and Partisanship
Public support is a critical component of any court’s institutional legitimacy. Understanding the roots and durability of such support is therefore crucial. This article uses survey data to explore public attitudes towards Canadian courts from 2008 to 2019. This time period is especially relevant given the comparatively tumultuous relationship between the Supreme Court and the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2006–2015). …
Out of an Abundance of Caution: Covid-19 and Health Risk Frames in Canadian News Media
Although Canada's first documented case of COVID-19 appeared in mid-January 2020, it was not until March that messaging about the need to contain the virus heightened. In this research note, we document the use of the media's construction of risk through framing in the early stages of the pandemic. We analyze three dimensions of the health risk narratives related to COVID-19 that dominated Canadians’ concerns about the virus. To capture these nar…
Questioning Judges with a Questionable Process: An Analysis of Committee Appearances by Canadian Supreme Court Candidates
In 2006, the Canadian government introduced a new component to its process of selecting Supreme Court justices, a review committee composed of members of Parliament. Tasked with interviewing justices prior to their appointment to the bench, the committee met four times, interviewing only five of the eight judicial candidates appointed to the bench before the Conservative government announced the committee's termination in 2014. This study offers …
An “Opportunity” for Policy Recycling? A Critical Analysis of the Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy
In this article, we critically explore the Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) with attention to whether, and how, elements of the strategy reflect indicators of policy recycling. Policy recycling here refers to instances where policymakers use previously designed and/or funded programs for a broader policy program or programmatic strategy. We draw from the analytic framework for policy recycling we first introduced in examining the PRS in …
Canada's twenty-first century discovery of China: Canadian media coverage of China and Japan
Chinese government officials and some Canadian foreign policy experts have challenged the content and tone of Canadian media's coverage of China. Canadian media coverage is thought to negatively bias public opinion and thereby constrain foreign policy choices available to policymakers. Scholars of Canada–Japan relations worry that decreasing media attention could have longer term effects on bilateral ties. Through an analysis of over 30,000 artic…
Framing trans-border energy transportation: The case of Keystone XL
Increasing discussion over the safety of natural resource extraction and transportation to facilitate international energy needs has given rise to controversy over the prospect of large quantities of bitumen and crude oil flowing through trans-national pipelines. This debate, incorporating the voices of industry, government and advocacy groups, has gained traction in the news media, alternately framed as an environmental, economic, trade, human r…
Evolving structure of governments: Portfolio adoption across the C anadian provinces from 1867–2012
Based on work by M oon and S ayers on the assignment of ministerial portfolios in A ustralia, we use a new dataset on portfolio adoption across all ten C anadian provinces and the federal government from 1867–2012. This data set when analyzed shows four distinct patterns of portfolio adoption that point to key motivations behind the development of new portfolios. We show that much of the common wisdom fails to explain portfolio creation but that …
Committee performance in the Senate of Canada: Some sobering analysis for the chamber of ‘sober second thought’
While Senate reform is a continual topic of interest for partisans, academics, and the media in Canada, the nature of the Senate's legislative activity is less widely reported. That the Senate provides sober, well-researched political advice through its committee work is the refuge of ardent Senate defenders. However, what type of policy work do Senate committees accomplish and in what volume? This paper investigates Senate committees' policy rep…
Understanding third-party advertising: An analysis of the 2004, 2006 and 2008 Canadian elections
Committee performance in the Senate of Canada: Some sobering analysis for the chamber of ‘sober second thought’
While Senate reform is a continual topic of interest for partisans, academics, and the media in Canada, the nature of the Senate's legislative activity is less widely reported. That the Senate provides sober, well-researched political advice through its committee work is the refuge of ardent Senate defenders. However, what type of policy work do Senate committees accomplish and in what volume? This paper investigates Senate committees' policy rep…
Evolving structure of governments: Portfolio adoption across the C anadian provinces from 1867–2012
Based on work by M oon and S ayers on the assignment of ministerial portfolios in A ustralia, we use a new dataset on portfolio adoption across all ten C anadian provinces and the federal government from 1867–2012. This data set when analyzed shows four distinct patterns of portfolio adoption that point to key motivations behind the development of new portfolios. We show that much of the common wisdom fails to explain portfolio creation but that …
Mass media and policy-making
Expansion in Progress: Understanding Portfolio Adoption in the Canadian Provinces, 1982–2012–Erratum
Questioning Judges with a Questionable Process: An Analysis of Committee Appearances by Canadian Supreme Court Candidates
In 2006, the Canadian government introduced a new component to its process of selecting Supreme Court justices, a review committee composed of members of Parliament. Tasked with interviewing justices prior to their appointment to the bench, the committee met four times, interviewing only five of the eight judicial candidates appointed to the bench before the Conservative government announced the committee's termination in 2014. This study offers …
Expansion in Progress: Understanding Portfolio Adoption in the Canadian Provinces, 1982–2012
While the act of adopting a new portfolio raises a number of interesting queries, little attention has been paid to portfolio adoption, what motivates and what conditions predicate it. The Canadian case provides an excellent laboratory to test some broadly held assumptions about portfolio adoption, particularly given the contrast of the ten provinces' unique political cultures with their shared jurisdictional roles. We illustrate our case using a…
Framing Immigration in the Canadian and British News Media
Despite an extensive dialogue on the subject of immigration, there has been little systematic cross-national investigation into the framing of immigration in the news media. Understanding the evolution of frames is an important piece of how we conceive of the link between the public's political priorities and policy makers’ responses. While the multi-directional relationships that exist between media, public policy and public opinion often pose c…
Expansion in Progress: Understanding Portfolio Adoption in the Canadian Provinces, 1982–2012 – Corrigendum
Local and National Accounts of Immigration Framing in a Cross-national Perspective
The aim of this article is to identify whether differences exist in local and national news framing of immigration. Using 12 years (2001–2012) of print media data from 15 Canadian and British print media sources, this article presents the first attempt to look for systematic differences in cross-city, within-country and cross-national framing on the subject of immigration. Contextual variables such as change in the unemployment rate and in the ra…
Media in the Policy Process: Using Framing and Narratives to Understand Policy Influences
Policy scholarship has long sought to understand the role of knowledge and information in the policy process. Of the actors, institutions, and resources involved in shaping policy processes and outcomes, media and narratives have been incorporated into empirical policy scholarship and theories with varying success. The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) is a framework through which scholars can bring analysis of narratives into studies of policy ma…
Getting Citizens to Save: Media Influence on Incentive-Based Policies
Governments often introduce financial incentives to citizens in order to encourage 'personally responsible' behaviour. Examples of these types of incentives include tax-deferral or tax-free incentives around retirement savings. These types of incentives are shown to matter to investment strategies in the aggregate, but we still lack a full explanation as to how individuals respond to these types of incentives, and what role media play in advertis…
Realising our (neoliberal) potential? A critical discourse analysis of the Poverty Reduction Strategy in Ontario, Canada
We examine the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) launched in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province. Using corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, we explore the dominant discourses that emerge in a genre chain produced by the Government of Ontario, including the initial 2008 PRS, annual reports and the 2014–2019 recontextualised PRS. Six key discourses surfaced: social exclusion, social inclusion, economic benefit or social investme…
The Politics of Judicial Appointment: Do Party Connections Impede the Appointment of Women to Canada's Federally Appointed Courts
The influence of party connection on the selection of judges has long been an issue in Canada This article considers whether such connections adversely affect the appointment of women judges to federally appointed courts. The answer appears to be yes. Using political donations as a proxy for party connection, the data analyzed here suggest that as the number of appointees with connections to the government rises, the number of women appointees fa…
Political Elites in Canada: Power and Influence in Instantaneous Times
Political Elites in Canada offers a timely look at Canadian politics and how power brokers are adapting to a fast-paced digital media environment. Elite power structures are changing worldwide, and the rise and fall of political influencers permeates national headlines. In many areas, traditional elites are losing authority over prevailing social, economic, and political structures. Communication between and among elites and citizens is having dr…
Political Elites in the Age of Digital Media
Policy versus practice: Third party behaviour in Canadian elections
Third party campaigners are widely noted to have the power to change the landscape of an election. Yet, in Canada, we know little about whether there is consistency behind third parties' motivations, expectations and strategies, or how these motivations parse with those of the legislators who are attempting to regulate their behaviour. This article explores these factors using data from Canadian federal elections from 2004 to 2015. Merging qualit…
Canada's twenty-first century discovery of China: Canadian media coverage of China and Japan
Chinese government officials and some Canadian foreign policy experts have challenged the content and tone of Canadian media's coverage of China. Canadian media coverage is thought to negatively bias public opinion and thereby constrain foreign policy choices available to policymakers. Scholars of Canada–Japan relations worry that decreasing media attention could have longer term effects on bilateral ties. Through an analysis of over 30,000 artic…
Framing trans-border energy transportation: The case of Keystone XL
Increasing discussion over the safety of natural resource extraction and transportation to facilitate international energy needs has given rise to controversy over the prospect of large quantities of bitumen and crude oil flowing through trans-national pipelines. This debate, incorporating the voices of industry, government and advocacy groups, has gained traction in the news media, alternately framed as an environmental, economic, trade, human r…
Risk‐Based Policy Narratives
The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) was developed to provide theoretical and empirical grounding for inquiries into questions about the interplay between communication and policy processes. In our previous work, we argued for the inclusion of framing analysis within the broader NPF structure in order to account for the ways in which problems, solutions, and characters are portrayed to citizens. The study presented here seeks to further develop t…
Comparing third party policy frameworks: Regulating third party electoral finance in Canada and the United Kingdom
Deciding how to regulate money during elections is a critical policy choice faced by every democracy. Over the last two decades, both the United Kingdom and Canada have implemented substantial revisions to their electoral laws, including policy measures designed to regulate third party spending. Despite similar policy objectives, the countries’ approaches to regulation differ, leaving the potential for significant variation in third party spendin…
An “Opportunity” for Policy Recycling? A Critical Analysis of the Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy
In this article, we critically explore the Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) with attention to whether, and how, elements of the strategy reflect indicators of policy recycling. Policy recycling here refers to instances where policymakers use previously designed and/or funded programs for a broader policy program or programmatic strategy. We draw from the analytic framework for policy recycling we first introduced in examining the PRS in …
Out of an Abundance of Caution: Covid-19 and Health Risk Frames in Canadian News Media
Although Canada's first documented case of COVID-19 appeared in mid-January 2020, it was not until March that messaging about the need to contain the virus heightened. In this research note, we document the use of the media's construction of risk through framing in the early stages of the pandemic. We analyze three dimensions of the health risk narratives related to COVID-19 that dominated Canadians’ concerns about the virus. To capture these nar…
My only solution is to work later and sleep less: Exploring the perspectives of parenting in academia in Ontario, Canada
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of parents who have full professorial positions (in faculties of engineering and nursing) in universities in Ontario, Canada, with a particular focus on the ways in which gender shapes professors' parenting experiences. Design/methodology/approach We employ a case study methodology involving quantitative and qualitative data collected from a survey emailed to full professors in Ontar…
No Male Comparators: The Doubling Up of Discrimination on Pay Equity
Women seeking pay equity in women-dominated professions often encounter structural barriers to equity in the form of the “no male comparator” (NMC) analysis built into pay equity legislation. NMC is a symptom of larger societal inequities in the workforce, but it also serves as a catalyst to further entrench discrimination, which has the effect of reducing the societal value accorded to women-predominant professions. In this article, I engage in …
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