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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Padavic, Irene
Otros Autores: Reskin, Barbara F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : Pine Forge Press, ©2002.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Sociology for a new century.
Temas:
Sex discrimination in employment > United States.
Women > Employment > United States.
Men > Employment > United States.
Discrimination sexuelle dans l'emploi > États-Unis.
Hommes > Travail > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Men > Employment
Sex discrimination in employment
Women > Employment
Arbeit
Diskriminierung
Geschlecht
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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