The economic emergence of women
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
c2005.
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| 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.