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Female voices from the worksite : the impact of hidden bias against working women across the globe / edited by Marquita R. Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Marquita R., 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Equal pay for equal work.
- Sex discrimination in employment.
- Sexual division of labor.
- Women--Employment.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxx, 231 pages) : illustrations
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, 2020.
- Summary:
- "This collection examines narratives expressed by women as they maneuver through social, cultural, economic, and political landmines during the search for gender equality in their respective work fields"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I: The Gender Wage Gap Chapter 1: Precarious Employment Intersecting with Gender: Are Women Punished More? Chapter 2: Women Tea Workers of Munnar: Daily Negotiations with the Restrictive Spaces Chapter 3: Gender-based Disparities in the Medical Field: The Female Physician Story Chapter 4: Voicing the Invisible: Women's Home-based Work and Labor in Istanbul's Garment Industry Part II: The Use of Language to Devalue Women in the Workplace Chapter 5: How Students Think about Women Professors: Enforcement of Hegemonic Femininity in Students' End-of-Term Evaluations Chapter 6: Career Impediments for Women in Turkish Engineering Academia Part III: Institutional Structures which Reinforce Women's Secondary Status Chapter 7: The Impact of the 2017 Labour Reform in Gender Issues in Brazil Chapter 8: The Effect of Indirect Bias on Gender Equality in the Building Trades Chapter 9: Gendered agribuisness, feminization of work and the seeds of empowerment: The case of women of Greenehouse Chapter 10: Gender in Midwestern Building Trades: Tokenism and Beyond
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-66698-963-0
- 1-7936-2875-0
- OCLC:
- 1225549016
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