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Legalizing gender inequality : courts, markets, and unequal pay for women in America /
"Equal pay for men and women in the work force suffered a series of defeats in U.S. courts during the 1970s and 1980s and became the object of attack by a conservative administration and conventional economic wisdom. Yet the issue persists, unsolved, and continues to attract scholarly and popul...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Structural analysis in the social sciences ;
16. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Law, markets, and the institutional construction of gender inequality in pay
- pt. 1. Theory and method. Legal theories of sex-based pay discrimination. Toward an organizational theory of gender inequality in pay. Methodological approach: law cases, case studies, and critical empiricism
- pt. 2a. The case studies: public sector organizations. Paternalism and politics in a university pay system: Christensen v. State of Iowa. Bureaucratic politics and gender inequality in a state pay system: AFSCME v. State of Washington
- pt. 2b. The case studies: private sector organizations. Corporate politics, rationalization, and managerial discretion: EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. The financial institution as a male, profit-making club: Glass v. Coastal Bank
- pt. 3. Conclusion: legalizing gender inequality. Rethinking the relationship between law, markets, and gender inequality in organizations
- Appendix: court documents and case materials used in case studies.