| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xix, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-289) and indexes. |
| Contents |
1. Models of women and work -- The politics of knowledge building -- The functionalist paradigm -- Model 1, the employed woman as invisible -- Model 2, the employed woman as a social problem model -- Model 3, male work experience is the norm -- Model 4, socialization and "ladies choice" -- Model 5, superwoman -- Summing up -- An alternative perspective : the structural approach -- World Wide Web resources -- 2. A brief history of working women -- Women workers in pre-industrial America -- White women -- Women of color -- Native American women -- The arrival on industrialization -- The legacy of slavery -- World War I and the Depression -- World War II -- After World War II : the rise of the married woman worker -- Organizing women laborers : the role of unions -- The era of the craft union -- The rise of "new unionism" -- Industrial unionism -- Public sector and service workers and the influence of the women's movement -- Women of color -- Other women of color at work -- Native American women -- Latina women -- Some summary comparisons -- Asian American women -- The globalized woman at work -- Do women workers benefit from globalization? -- The status quo : no Shangri-La -- World Wide Web resources -- 3. Gender inequality : economic and legal explanations -- Sex segregation of occupations -- The glass ceiling -- The growing importance of the female/male earnings gap -- Explaining occupational segregation and inequality -- The economic context, the individual approach -- Sex-role socialization and women's "choices" -- Human-capital theory -- Limitations of the individual approach -- The economic context, structural approach -- Dual labor markets -- Discriminatory practices -- The legal context -- A short history : the Colonial period -- Women, the factory system, and protective legislation -- Protective legislation -- Domestic-relations laws and other legislation -- Other significant legislation : sex discrimination and equal opportunity -- The Equal Pay Act -- Comparable worth -- Title VII -- Affirmative action -- EEOC -- Title IX -- The women's movement -- World Wide Web resources -- |
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4. Gender inequality and socialization : the influences of family, school, peers, and the media -- Gender roles, products of biology or socialization? -- The family -- The educational system -- The special case of single-sex school -- Peer groups -- The media -- Consequences of gender socialization for career choices -- Racial, ethnic, and class variations in gender socialization -- Women of color -- Consequences of differential gender socialization for the career choices of women of color -- Social class -- Consequences of differential gender socialization among social classes for the career opportunity of women -- Summary -- World Wide Web resources -- 5. Women in everyday jobs : clerical, sales, service, and blue-collar work -- Women in clerical occupations -- The feminization of clerical work : a historical examination -- Clerical work as "female" labor -- Women bosses : a new reality for clerical workers -- Male clerical workers -- Sexual harassment and clerical work -- The clerical worker and technological advancement -- Organization of clerical workers -- Sales and service occupations -- Women in waitressing -- Women in retail sales -- Sales and service outlook -- Domestic service -- Women in the military -- Military culture -- Women in blue-collar work -- Sweatshops : not in the United States? -- Globalization of factory work -- Where do we go from here? -- World Wide Web resources -- 6. Professional and managerial women -- A brief history of the feminization of selected semiprofessions : teaching, nursing, and social work -- Teaching -- Nursing -- Social work -- A short history of women in management -- Contemporary status of women in professions and management -- Job segregation -- The "glass ceiling" for women in management? -- Structural barriers to women in the professions and management -- Organizational culture, policies, and practices -- Organizational culture -- The clockwork of male careers -- Networking ("The old boys' network") -- Mentors -- Tokenism -- Positionality -- Summary -- World Wide Web resources -- 7. Working women and their families -- Impact of industrialization and capitalism on housework -- Women's double day -- What about the children? -- Men's resistance to housework -- Women's coping strategies/individualistic resolutions -- Structural solutions -- The impact of welfare reform -- Where do we go from here? -- World Wide Web resources -- 8. Changing the lives of working women -- The women's movement -- Backlash -- Attitudes toward working women -- World Wide Web resources. |
| Subject |
Women -- Employment -- United States.
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Women -- Employment. |
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United States. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Carter, Gregg Lee, 1951-
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| ISBN |
0195150473 paper alkaline paper |
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