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Women and men at work / Irene Padavic, Barbara Reskin.
LIBRA HD6060.5.U5 R47 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Padavic, Irene.
- Series:
- Sociology for a new century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex discrimination in employment--United States.
- Sex discrimination in employment.
- Men--Employment.
- United States.
- Women--Employment--United States.
- Women.
- Women--Employment.
- Men--Employment--United States.
- Men.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks : Pine Forge Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- 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 comparative material from other countries, recognizing differences in the experiences of women and men from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Relying on both qualitative and quantitative data, the authors seek to link social scientific ideas about workers' lives, sex inequality, and gender to the real-world workplace. This new edition contains updated statistics, timely cartoons, and presents new scholarship in the field. It also provides a renewed focus on reasons for variability in inequality across workplaces. In sum, the Second Edition of Women and Men at Work presents a contemporary perspective to the field, with relevant comparative and historical insights that will draw readers in and connect them to the wider concern of making sense of our dramatically changing world.
- Contents:
- 1. Work and Gender 1
- What Work Is 1
- Sex and Gender 3
- Gendered Work 6
- 2. Gendered Work in Time and Place 17
- The Sexual Division of Labor in Preindustrial Europe 17
- The Industrial Revolution 20
- The Sexual Division of Paid and Unpaid Work 21
- The Sexual Division of Labor Around the World 29
- 3. An Overview of Sex Inequality at Work 37
- Sex Inequality in the Contemporary American Workplace 37
- Explanations for Sex Inequality in the Workplace 39
- 4. Sex Segregation in the Workplace 57
- Consequences of Sex Segregation 58
- A History of Sex Segregation in the United States 60
- Cross-National Differences in Sex Segregation 70
- Trends in Sex Segregation 71
- Explanations and Remedies for Sex Segregation 74
- 5. Moving Up and Taking Charge 97
- Women, Men, and Promotions 97
- Women, Men, and Authority 100
- Explanations and Remedies for the Promotion and Authority Gaps 107
- 6. Sex Differences in Earnings 121
- The Cost of Being Female 121
- Explaining the Pay Gap 129
- Employers' Discriminatory Actions 136
- 7. Paid Work and Family Work 149
- The Decline of the Stay-at-Home Wife and Mother 149
- Work-Family Conflict 151
- The Sexual Division of Labor and Work-Family Conflict 159
- Responses to Work-Family Conflicts 162.
- Notes:
- Reskin's name appears first on the earlier edition.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 076198710X
- OCLC:
- 49525717
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