Women and men at work
The Second Edition of this best selling book provides a comprehensive examination of the role that gender plays in work environments. This book differs from others by comparing women's and men's work status, addressing contemporary issues within a historical perspective, incorporating comp...
| Основен автор: | Padavic, Irene. |
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| Други автори: | Reskin, Barbara F. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Thousand Oaks :
Pine Forge Press,
℗♭2002.
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| Издание: | 2nd ed. |
| Серия: |
Sociology for a new century.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=525924 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Women and men at work. |
Съдържание:
- 1.
- Work and gender
- What work is
- Sex and gender
- Gendered work
- Summary
- 2.
- Gendered work in time and place
- The sexual division of labor in preindustrial Europe
- The industrial revolution
- The sexual division of paid and unpaid work
- The sexual division of labor around the world
- Summary
- 3.
- An overview of sex inequality at work
- Sex inequality in the contemporary American workplace
- Explanations for sex inequality in the workplace
- Summary
- 4.
- Sex segregation in the workplace
- Consequences of sex segregation
- A history of sex segregation in the United States
- Cross-national differences in sex segregation
- Trends in sex segregation
- Explanations and remedies for sex segregation
- Summary
- 5.
- Moving up and taking charge
- Women, men, and promotions
- Women, men, and authority
- Explanations and remedies for the promotion and authority gaps
- Summary
- 6.
- Sex differences in earnings
- The cost of being female
- Explaining the pay gap
- Employers' discriminatory actions
- Summary
- 7.
- Paid work and family work
- The decline of the stay-at-home wife and mother
- Work-family conflict
- The sexual division of labor and work-family conflict
- Responses to work-family conflicts
- Summary.