Edition |
Second edition. |
Description |
xv, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Women and work in the social sciences / Joan Acker -- A history of women's work in the United States / Karen Anderson -- The data on women's labor force participation / Glenna Spitze -- The doubly disadvantaged : women of color in the U.S. labor force / Shelley A. Smith and Marta Tienda -- Some economic approaches to the persistence of wage differences between men and women / Mary Huff Stevenson -- Sociological explanations of the male-female wage gap : individualist and structuralist theories / Shelley Coverman -- Contributions of Marxism and feminism to the sociology of women and work / Natalie J. Sokoloff -- Girls' socialization for work / Carol Ireson and Sandra Gill -- Marriage, family life, and women's employment / Jane Riblett Wilkie -- Women in male-dominated professional and managerial occupations / Barbara F. Reskin and Polly A. Phipps -- Women in female-dominated professions / Ann Helton Stromberg -- Women in clerical work / Barbara A. Gutek -- Women in sales and service occupations / Catherine White Berheide -- Women in blue-collar occupations : traditional and nontraditional / Brigid O'Farrell -- Invisible and independent : lesbians' experiences in the workplace / Beth E. Schneider -- Women's unpaid labor : home and community / Sarah Fenstermaker Berk -- Policies affecting women's employment in industrial countries / Ronnie J. Steinberg and Alice Cook -- Sex discrimination and the law / Andrea S. Christensen -- Directions for the future / Shirley Harkess. |
Note |
Includes index. |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 361-411. |
Subject |
Women -- Employment -- United States.
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Sexual division of labor -- United States.
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Pay equity -- United States.
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Indexed Term |
United States Women personnel |
Added Author |
Stromberg, Ann Helton.
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Harkess, Shirley.
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ISBN |
0874847443 paperback |
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