Women and Men at WorkPine Forge Press, 2002 M07 9 - 217 pages The Second Edition of this best selling book provides a comprehensive examination of the role that gender plays in work environments. This book differs from others by comparing women's and men's work status, addressing contemporary issues within a historical perspective, incorporating comparative material from other countries, recognizing differences in the experiences of women and men from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Relying on both qualitative and quantitative data, the authors seek to link social scientific ideas about workers' lives, sex inequality, and gender to the real-world workplace. This new edition contains updated statistics, timely cartoons, and presents new scholarship in the field. It also provides a renewed focus on reasons for variability in inequality across workplaces. In sum, the second edition of Women and Men at Work presents a contemporary perspective to the field, with relevant comparative and historical insights that will draw readers in and connect them to the wider concern of making sense of our dramatically changing world. |
Contents
Work and Gender | 1 |
Sex and Gender | 3 |
Gendered Work | 6 |
Summary | 15 |
Gendered Work in Time and Place | 17 |
The Industrial Revolution | 20 |
The Sexual Division of Paid and Unpaid Work | 21 |
The Sexual Division of Labor Around the World | 29 |
Summary | 94 |
Moving Up and Taking Charge | 97 |
Women Men and Authority | 100 |
Explanations and Remedies for the Promotion and Authority Gaps | 107 |
Summary | 119 |
Sex Differences in Earnings | 121 |
Explaining the Pay Gap | 129 |
Employers Discriminatory Actions | 136 |
Summary | 35 |
An Overview of Sex Inequality at Work | 37 |
Explanations for Sex Inequality in the Workplace | 39 |
Summary | 55 |
Sex Segregation in the Workplace | 57 |
Consequences of Sex Segregation | 58 |
A History of Sex Segregation in the United States | 60 |
CrossNational Differences in Sex Segregation | 70 |
Trends in Sex Segregation | 71 |
Explanations and Remedies for Sex Segregation | 74 |
Summary | 146 |
Paid Work and Family Work | 149 |
WorkFamily Conflict | 151 |
The Sexual Division of Labor and WorkFamily Conflict | 159 |
Responses to WorkFamily Conflicts | 162 |
Summary | 172 |
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