Gender in the Workplace

Clair Brown; Joseph A. Pechman

doi:10.5771/9780815714903

Summary

That women have entered the work force in large numbers is a well-known economic development, but many questions remain about the effects of this dramatic shift. Have women been truly integrated into the labor market? How have they fared in the competition for fair wages and professional jobs? What has happened to the American family and its standard of living?

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Edition: 1/2010
Copyright Year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8157-1169-8
ISBN-Online: 978-0-8157-1490-3
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 316
Product Type: Edited Book

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1. Consumption, Work, and Growth No access
2. The Roles of Gender in an Internal Labor Market No access
3. Occupational Segregation among Bank Tellers No access
4. Gender, Skill, and the Dynamics of Women's Employment No access
5. Unions and the Female Work Force No access
6. Part-Time Work and Occupational Segregation No access
7. Child Support and Welfare No access
8. Sex-Based Employment Quotas No access
9. Conclusion No access
1. An Institutional Framework No access
2. The Data No access
3. Income Distribution, Work Roles, and Budgets No access
4. The Dynamics of Economic Growth, Work Roles, and Consumption Norms No access
5. Consumption Norms over Time No access
6. The Creation and Preservation of Economic Distance No access
7. Summary and Policy Implications No access
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1. A Review of the Literature No access
2. The Internal Labor Market in an Insurance Firm No access
3. Conclusion and Research Needs No access
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1. Strober's Theory of Occupational Segregation No access
2. The Feminization of Bank Telling No access
3. Effects of the Shift in Gender Assignment on the Earnings Differential No access
4. Effects of the Shift in Gender Assignment on the Relative Earnings of Tellers No access
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1. Theoretical Framework No access
2. Subcontracting Links No access
3. The Dynamics of Women's Employment No access
4. Gender Traits and Women's Employment No access
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1. Organization of Female Workers No access
2. What Unions Do to Female Wages and Employment No access
3. Unions and Comparable Worth No access
4. Conclusion No access
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1. Occupational Segregation among Part-Timers and Full-Timers No access
2. Data and Definitions No access
3. The Index of Occupational Segregation No access
4. Sex-Labeled Occupations and the Distribution of Jobs No access
5. Explanations No access
6. Increasing Part-Time Work Option Programs No access
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1. The Economic Situation of the Single Mother No access
2. The Census Survey of Child Support No access
3. The Relationship between Child Support and Independence No access
4. Simulating the Effect of Various Reforms No access
5. The Ability of Absent Fathers to Pay No access
6. Conclusion No access
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1. The Regional Development Assistance Program No access
2. How the Sex Quota Works No access
3. Comparison with U.S. Experience No access
4. Effect of the Quota on Female Employment No access
5. Effect of the Quota on Jobs Held by Women No access
6. Domestic Implications No access
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