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Workplace/women's place: an anthology
Publisher
Roxbury
Publication Date
c2006
Language
English
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From the Book - 3rd ed.
Introduction to the study of women and work / Paula Dubeck, Dana Dunn unit 1. Becoming workers : girl's socialization for employment Introduction 1. Parental influence and women's careers / Sue Joan Mendelson Freeman 2. Shortchanging girls : gender socialization in schools / Peggy Orenstein (in association with the American Association of University Women) 3. Gender and the career choice process : the role of biased self-assessment / Shelly J. Correll
unit 2. Workplace inequality : gendered structures and their consequences Introduction 4. Women's employment among Blacks, whites, and three groups of Latinas : do more privileged women have higher employment? / Paula England, Carmen Garcia-Beaulieu, Mary Ross 5. Gendered jobs and gendered workers / Christine L. Williams 6. Sex segregation in the workplace / Barbara F. Reskin 7. The penny pinch / Christine Larson 8. Women, men, and management styles / Marie-Therese Claes 9. The glass ceiling / The Federal Glass Ceiling Commission 10. Gender gap in the executive suite : CEOs and female executives report on breaking the glass ceiling / Belle Rose Ragins, Bickley Townsend, Mary Mattis 11. The impact of male work environments and organizational policies on women's experiences of sexual harassment / James E. Gruber
unit 3. Work and family : seeking a balance Introduction 12. The second shift : working parents and the revolution at home / Arlie Russell Hochschild with Anne Machung 13. The time bind / Arlie Russell Hochschild 14. Fast-track women and the 'choice' to stay home / Pamela Stone, Meg Lovejoy 15. Family and career trajectories among African American female attorneys / Mary Blair-Loy, Gretchen DeHart 16. The work-home crunch / Kathleen Gerson, Jerry A. Jacobs
unit 4. Women workers across the spectrum Introduction 17. Race, class, gender, and women's works : a conceptual framework / Teresa L. Amott, Julie A. Matthaei 18. Negotiating identity in raced and gendered workplace interactions : the use of strategic communication by African American women senior executives within dominant culture organizations / Patricia S. Parker 19. Selling women short : a research note on gender differences in compensation on Wall Street / Louise Marie Roth 20. Voces Abriendo Caminos (Voices forging paths) : a qualitative study of the career development of notable Latinas / Maria J. Gomez ... [et al.] 21. Gender and the formation of a women's profession : the case of public school teaching / Jo Anne Preston 22. 'Outsider within' the firehouse : subordination and difference in the social interactions of African American women firefighters / Janice D. Yoder, Patricia Aniakudo 23. Police force or police service : gender and emotional labor / Susan Ehrlich Martin 24. 'Hey, why don't you wear a shorter skirt?' : structural vulnerability and the organization of sexual harassment in temporary clerical employment / Jackie Krasas Rogers, Kevin D. Henson 25. The managed hand : the commercialization of bodies and emotions in Korean immigrant-owned nail salons / Miliann Kang 26. Chicanas modernize domestic service / Mary Romero
unit 5. Policy and Assessment
Introduction
27. Are we there yet? : reflections on work and family as an emergent social issue / Paula J. Dubeck
28. Kaleidoscope careers : an alternative explanation for the 'opt-out' revolution / Lisa A. Mainiero, Sherry E. Sullivan
29. Job leaves and the limits of the Family and Medical Leave Act : the effects of gender, race, and family / Naomi Gerstel, Katherine McGonagle
30. Blessing or curse? : work-family policies and mothers' wage growth over time / Jennifer Glass
Appendix I. 2004 salary survey from NAFE
Appendix II. Data and information on women's labor force participation
Charts on earnings for full-time wage and salary workers
The wage gap
Mothers in the labor force.
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