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What women want from work : gender and occupational choice in the 21st century / Ruth Woodfield.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woodfield, Ruth.
- Series:
- York studies on women and men
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Employment--Case studies.
- Women.
- Women in the professions--Case studies.
- Women in the professions.
- Women--Vocational guidance--Case studies.
- Women--Promotions--Case studies.
- Sexual division of labor--Case studies.
- Sexual division of labor.
- Sex discrimination in employment--Case studies.
- Sex discrimination in employment.
- Women--Promotions.
- Women--Vocational guidance.
- Women--Employment.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 250 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- Despite improvements in opportunities, women remain concentrated in particular occupational sectors and roles. What underlies this situation? Do women simply prefer distinct types of work? Or are current patterns more a function of external limitations on initial ambitions? Although there is a wealth of literature relating to gendered occupational segregation, there is comparatively little seeking to account for how work choices are made from the individual's perspective. Ruth Woodfield offers a detailed, qualitative exploration of over one hundred and eighty girls' and women's accounts of their journeys towards work choices. She examines narratives of work decisions and experiences through the lens of commentary on two neglected case study occupations - fire fighting and teaching - and explores the impact of the media, parents, and teachers, as well as discourses of masculinity and femininity, individualism and collectivism, free will and constraint, on the development of these individual perspectives.
- Contents:
- Gender and occupational segregation : setting the scene
- Accounting for occupational segregation : the perspective of girls and women
- Women and non-traditional work : a case study of fire fighting
- Women and 'traditional' work : a case study of teaching
- Women and career progression : ambition, success and choice
- Gender as vocation : a sociology of choice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0230549225
- 9780230549227
- OCLC:
- 187417673
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