The economic emergence of women /

This new edition of a classic feminist book explains how one of the great historical revolutions - the ongoing movement toward equality between the sexes - has come about. Its origins are to be found, not in changing ideas, but in the economic developments that have made women's labour too valu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bergmann, Barbara R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2005.
Edición:2nd ed., 1st ed.
Temas:
Women > United States > Economic conditions.
Women > Employment > United States.
Sex discrimination against women > United States.
Housewives > United States.
Femmes > États-Unis > Conditions économiques.
Discrimination à l'égard des femmes > États-Unis.
Femmes au foyer > États-Unis.
Housewives
Sex discrimination against women
Women > Economic conditions
Women > Employment
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The breakup of the sex-role caste system
  • 2. Why did women emerge?
  • 3. The social factors : births, schools, divorces, ideas
  • 4. "Women's place" in the labor market
  • 5. Occupational segregation by sex : the root of women's disadvantage
  • 6. Setting the pay for the jobs women hold
  • 7. Government action against discrimination
  • 8. Affirmative action and pay equity
  • 9. The occupation of housewife
  • 10. Lone parents and their poverty
  • 11. Keeping house : the economics and politics of family care
  • 12. "Industrializing" housework and child care
  • 13. A policy agenda for the sex-role revolution.

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