Gender, age and inequality in the professions / edited by Marta Choroszewicz and Tracey L. Adams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Choroszewicz, Marta, editor.

Adams, Tracey Lynn, 1966- editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in gender and organizations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual division of labor.

Sex discrimination in employment.

Women's rights.

Older people--Employment.

Older people.

Physical Description:

xv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction: themes, objectives and theoretical perspectives / Marta Choroszewicz and Tracey L. Adams

Health professions

Early-career doctors and in/justice in work : the invisibility of gender in a "male" profession / Antero Olakivi and Sirpa Wrede

"Not that many female med students want to pursue surgery" : gender, ethnicity and the life course in medical students' specialty choices / Tracey L. Adams and Eugena Kwon

Intergenerational dynamics among women and men in nursing / Marci D. Cottingham and Janette S. Dill

"Male" ficence or "miss" understandings? : exploring the relationship between gender, young healthcare professionals, social media, and professionalism / Patricia Neville

The legal professions

Launching careers in law: entry to first jobs after law school / Fiona Kay

Do gender regimes matter?: converging and diverging career prospects among young French and Swiss lawyers / Isabel Boni-Le Goff, Nicky Le Feuvre, Grégoire Mallard, Eléonore Lépinard & Sandrine Morel

A life course approach to workplace discrimination and employment : evidence from a U.S. national sample of women and men lawyers / Gabriele Plickert

Fathers in private law practice in Finland : reconciling work and family life for male lawyers from different generations / Marta Choroszewicz

Further professions

40 years of gender inequality among men and women in high-prestige occupations : does the story differ among the young? / Charlotta Magnusson and Magnus Nermo

Age-gender relations in the academic profession : putting the challenges of early career academics into context / Jeff Hearn and Liisa Husu

A young man's game : age and gender in technology jobs / Christianne Marie Corbett

Women in engineering : experiences of discrimination across age cohort / Tracey L. Adams

Conclusions

Conclusion: findings, future research and policy recommendations / Tracey L. Adams and Marta Choroszewicz

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780815358572

0815358571

OCLC:

1083179724