The economic emergence of women

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bergmann, Barbara R.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005.
Edition:2nd ed., 1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.
  • The breakup of the sex-role caste system
  • 2.
  • Why did women emerge?
  • 3.
  • The social factors : births, schools, divorces, ideas
  • 4.
  • "Women's place" in the labor market
  • 5.
  • Occupational segregation by sex : the root of women's disadvantage
  • 6.
  • Setting the pay for the jobs women hold
  • 7.
  • Government action against discrimination
  • 8.
  • Affirmative action and pay equity
  • 9.
  • The occupation of housewife
  • 10.
  • Lone parents and their poverty
  • 11.
  • Keeping house : the economics and politics of family care
  • 12.
  • "Industrializing" housework and child care
  • 13.
  • A policy agenda for the sex-role revolution.