The economic emergence of women [electronic resource] / Barbara R. Bergmann.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: BookBookPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005.Edition: 2nd ed., 1st edDescription: 255 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.43/0973 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1426 .B429 2005eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-250) and index.

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.

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