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Title Women and the economy : a reader / edited by Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart.

Publication Info. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Originally published: M.E. Sharpe, 2003.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Rethinking economics through a feminist lens / Myra H. Strober -- Revisiting class : thinking from gender, race, and organizations / Joan Acker -- Feminist economics : from theory to research / Martha MacDonald -- Breadwinners and other workers : gender and race-ethnicity in the evolution of the labor force / Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, Marilyn Power -- Industrialization, female labor force participation, and the modern division of labor by sex / William Rau, Robert Wazienski.
Men and monotony : fraternalism as a managerial strategy at the Ford Motor Company / Wayne A. Lewchuk -- Exploring the "present through the past" : career and family across the last century / Claudia Goldin -- Marriage, children, and women's employment : what do we know? / Philip N. Cohen, Suzanne M. Bianchi -- Economic risks of being a housewife / Barbara R. Bergmann -- For love or money--or both? / Nancy Folbre, Julie A. Nelson -- Student attitudes toward roles of women and men : is the egalitarian household imminent? / Marianne A. Ferber, Lauren Young.
Household as a focus for research / Jane Wheelock, Elizabeth Oughton -- Earnings gap and family choices / Michael Levin -- Race and gender wage gaps in the market for recent college graduates / Catherine J. Weinberger -- Motor bus deregulation and the gender wage gap : a test of the Becker hypothesis / Ann Schwarz-Miller, Wayne K. Talley -- "That single-mother element" : how white employers typify black women / Ivy Kennelly -- Political economy of labor market discrimination : a classroom-friendly presentation of the theory / Steven Shulman.
Black women's breakthrough into clerical work : an occupational tipping model / Mary C. King -- Gender as more than a dummy variable : feminist approaches to discrimination / Deborah M. Figart -- Just checking it out : exploring the significance of informal gender divisions among American supermarket employees / Martin Tolich, Celia Briar -- Single, with children : the economic plight of single mothers / Randy Albelda, Chris Tilly -- Minimum wage increase : a working woman's issue / Jared Bernstein, Heidi Hartmann, John Schmitt.
Challenge of comparable worth : an institutionalist view / Janice Peterson -- Curing child poverty in the United States / Barbara R. Bergmann -- Why Americans need family leave benefits and how they can get them / Betty Holcomb -- Gender and international labor standards in the world economy / Nilüfer Cagatay -- Globalization, gender, and the Davos Man / Lourdes Benería -- Development, gender, and the environment : theoretical or contextual link? Toward an institutional analysis of gender / Eiman Zein-Elabdin -- Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women.
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Subject Feminist economics.
Feminist economics.
Women -- Economic conditions.
Women -- Economic conditions.
Women -- Employment.
Women -- Employment.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Mutari, Ellen, 1956- author.
Figart, Deborah M., author.
Other Form: Original 0765609959 9780765609953 0765609967 9780765609960 (DLC) 2002042802 (OCoLC)51086789
ISBN 9781317451884 electronic book
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