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The Declining Significance of Gender? Francine D. Blau, Mary C. Brinton, and David B. Grusky, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Pay equity.
- Sex discrimination in employment.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The last half-century has witnessed substantial change in the opportunities and rewards available to men and women in the workplace.While the gender pay gap narrowed and female labor force participation rose dramatically in recent decades, some dimensions of gender inequality--most notably the division of labor in the family--have been more.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The declining significance of gender / Francine D. Blau, Mary C. Brinton, and David B. Grusky
- Making sense of change and stability in gender inequality. 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, 1970-1990 / Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom and Trond Petersen. Possible futures of gender inequality. 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-062-5
- OCLC:
- 654261988
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