The declining significance of gender? / Francine D. Blau, Mary C. Brinton, and David B. Grusky, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blau, Francine D.

Brinton, Mary C.

Grusky, David B.

John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex discrimination in employment.

Pay equity.

Sex discrimination against women.

Physical Description:

x, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2006]

Contents:

Introduction: The declining significance of gender / Francine D. Blau, Mary C. Brinton, and David B. Grusky

The gender pay gap: going, going

but not gone / Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn

The rising (and then declining) significance of gender / Claudia Goldin

How the life-cycle human-capital model explains why the gender wage gap narrowed / Solomon W. Polachek

How much progress in closing the long-term earnings gap? / Heidi Hartmann, Stephen J. Rose, and Vicky Lovell

The glass ceiling in the United States and Sweden: lessons from the family-friendly corner of the world, 1970 to 1990 / Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom and Trond Petersen

Opposing forces: how, why, and when will gender inequality disappear? / Robert Max Jackson

Toward gender equality: progress and bottlenecks / Paula England

Gender as an organizing force in social relations: implications for the future of inequality / Cecilia L. Ridgeway.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

0871540924

OCLC:

62282383

Publisher Number:

9780871540928