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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Nelson, Robert L., 1952- (Author), Bridges, William P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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.