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The Price Women Pay: Women's Attachment To Work, Megan Grace Connor Jan 2020

The Price Women Pay: Women's Attachment To Work, Megan Grace Connor

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the world has created institutions that oppress and isolate women. The mother is often the most isolated and confined to the roles of her job- a job not considered productive in the traditional framework of economics. This research explores the structure of family and culture that has impacted the lives of women in the United States. Now education and generations of feminists have created new paths for women, but children have been the barrier to lasting labor force participation. The workforce has discriminated against women for years. As sentiments towards women’s participation turns …


Discrimination In The U.S Mortgage Market: A Historic Overview Of Discriminatory Practices And How The Rapid Expansion Of The Secondary Market Has Reshaped Them And The Incentives Behind Them, Ioannis Prousanidis Jan 2019

Discrimination In The U.S Mortgage Market: A Historic Overview Of Discriminatory Practices And How The Rapid Expansion Of The Secondary Market Has Reshaped Them And The Incentives Behind Them, Ioannis Prousanidis

Senior Projects Spring 2019

My paper contributes to the existing literature regarding discriminatory practices in the mortgage market. It is argued that the development of the mortgage market, and specifically the rapid expansion of the secondary market, gave rise to new discriminatory practices (predatory lending, algorithmic based discrimination). My project analyses the specifics of these developments and how they are associated with the introduction of these current discriminatory acts, outlines the changing incentives behind them and argues that current legislation has been proved to be too inflexible to adapt to the changing nature of the mortgage market and of the practices themselves. Furthermore my …


Fair Pay To Play: The Compensation Debate And The Exploitation Of Black Student-Athletes, Wynn S. Miller Jan 2019

Fair Pay To Play: The Compensation Debate And The Exploitation Of Black Student-Athletes, Wynn S. Miller

Senior Projects Fall 2019

The National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), which is the governing board for intercollegiate athletics in the United States, earns large amounts of revenue from major college sports like Division I football and men’s basketball but does not provide any compensation beyond basic athletic scholarships to the student-athletes who generate the revenue. In recent years, the NCAA has come under increased scrutiny due to what is perceived as hypocrisy—that is, the NCAA using its student-athletes to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue but refusing to provide fair compensation to the student-athletes. Because a majority of student-athletes on Division I …


The Specter Of Caste, Kabir Raj Khanna Jan 2018

The Specter Of Caste, Kabir Raj Khanna

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.