The Economic Emergence of Women / by B. Bergmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergmann, Barbara R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex.

Labor economics.

Economic history.

History.

Gender Studies.

Labor Economics.

Economic History.

Local Subjects:

Gender Studies.

Labor Economics.

Economic History.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 255 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new edition of a classic feminist book explains how one of the great historical revolutions - the ongoing movement toward equality between the sexes - has come about. Its origins are to be found, not in changing ideas, but in the economic developments that have made women's labour too valuable to be spent exclusively in domestic pursuits. The revolution is unfinished; new arrangements are needed to fight still-prevalent discrimination in the workplace, to achieve a more just sharing of housework and childcare between women and men, and, with the weakening of the institution of marriage, to re-erect a firm economic basis for the raising of children.

Contents:

1. The breakup of the sex-role caste system

2. Why did women emerge?

3. The social factors : births, schools, divorces, ideas

4. "Women's place" in the labor market

5. Occupational segregation by sex : the root of women's disadvantage

6. Setting the pay for the jobs women hold

7. Government action against discrimination

8. Affirmative action and pay equity

9. The occupation of housewife

10. Lone parents and their poverty

11. Keeping house : the economics and politics of family care

12. "Industrializing" housework and child care

13. A policy agenda for the sex-role revolution.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-250) and index.

ISBN:

9786611369309

9781281369307

1281369306

9781403982582

1403982589

OCLC:

560470997