This article explores the glass-ceiling barriers and pay inequities experienced by women who are employed in the nonprofit human services. In addition, it reviews past and current initiatives to ameliorate gender discrimination and discrepancies between equal opportunity policies and continued marketplace realities and presents implications for policy development, social action, research, and practice.
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