Search Results - "gender inequality"

Law and gender inequality : the politics of women's rights / by Agnes, Flavia

Legalizing gender inequality courts, markets, and unequal pay for women in America / by Nelson, Robert L., 1952-

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Leftover women : the resurgence of gender inequality in China / by Hong Fincher, Leta

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Selling women short gender inequality on Wall Street / by Roth, Louise Marie, 1970-

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Women, work, and politics the political economy of gender inequality / by Iversen, Torben

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A political economy approach to gender inequality -- The structure of patriarchy: how bargaining power shapes social norms and political attitudes -- The gender division of labor, or why women work double shifts -- Fertility -- Political preferences -- Gender and political careers: a comparative labor market analysis of female political representation -- Conclusions.…”
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International investigation into "gender inequality" in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)

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Disrupting the culture of silence : confronting gender inequality and making change in higher education /

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Corinth in contrast : studies in inequality /

Table of Contents: “…Junia Theodora of Corinth : gendered inequalities in the early empire / Steven J. Friesen -- 12. …”
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Gendered trajectories women, work, and social change in Japan and Taiwan / by Yu, Wei-Hsin

Table of Contents: “…Gender inequality and social change in Japan and Taiwan -- The development of women's labor market experiences -- Comparing labor market structures and workplace dynamics -- Patterns of labor exits among women -- Challenges from the home front -- Returning to the labor force -- Higher education and gender inequality.…”
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Handbook of gender, work, and organization

Table of Contents: “…/ Silvia Gherardi -- Gender, work, and organization in popular culture / Alison Pullen, Carl Rhodes -- Theorizing gender, race, and class in organizations / Joan Acker -- How to study gender inequality in organizations? / Barbara Czarniawska -- Leading with body / Amanda Sinclair -- The Body : a review and a theoretical perspective / Angela Hope -- New intimacy, new motherhood, same old work? …”
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Neoliberal developments in higher education the United Kingdom and Germany / by Pritchard, Rosalind M. O.

Table of Contents: “…Academic freedom and autonomy in the United Kingdom and Germany -- Principles and pragmatism in private higher education : examples from the United Kingdom and Germany -- Challenges of participation in German higher education : an east-west comparison -- Trends in the restructuring of German universities -- Government power in British higher education -- Some international perspectives on British teacher training -- British and German students in a shifting scenario -- The influence of market force culture on British and German academics -- New public management, academic time and gender inequality (with Mary Henkel) -- The Bologna Process in higher education : German and British responses.…”
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Identity in metamorphosis an anthology of writings from Zimbabwe students /

Table of Contents: “…One man's history / Fortune Madzime -- 'Trapped between two cultures' : schools, culture and change / Fortune Madzime -- "We want our identity back" : language instruction in the schools / Kundai Moyana -- "Poor working conditions equals poor results" : hardships in rural schools / Fortune Madzime -- "The girl child is not important according to Shona culture" : gender inequality and the schools / Kundai Moyana -- "Not really indigenous" : blacks and whites in Zimbabwe's private schools / Fortune Madzime -- "Undemocratic schools create dull people" : democracy and change in education / Kundai Moyana -- A dialogue -- "Where do we go from here?" …”
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Veiled employment Islamism and the political economy of women's employment in Iran /

Table of Contents: “…Olmsted -- Modernization, revolution, and Islamism : political economy of women's employment / Roksana Bahramitash and Hadi Salehi Esfahani -- From postrevolution to the reform : gender politics and employment / Roksana Bahramitash and Hadi Salehi Esfahani -- The transformation of the female labor market / Roksana Bahramitash and Hadi Salehi Esfahani -- The effects of international trade on gender inequality in Iran : the case of women carpet weavers / Zahra Karimi -- Female-headed households in Iran : microcredit versus charity / Roksana Bahramitash -- Veiled economy : gender and the informal sector / Roksana Bahramitash and Shahla Kazemipour -- Iran's missing working women / Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam -- Iranian immigrant women's labor market strategies : a complex and entangled process / Zohreh Mirzadegan Niknia.…”
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Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction? Looking Over the Long Run /

Table of Contents: “…The lingering face of gender inequality in Latin America -- Chapter 11. Fiscal Redistribution in Latin America since the Nineteenth Century -- PART II. …”
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Changing structures of inequality a comparative perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Bahr ... [et al.] -- Gender inequality in five modern societies / Denise Lemieux, Marion Möhle -- Inequality : the structuring effect of social class in four societies / Paul Kingston ... …”
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Sexual inequalities and social justice

Table of Contents: “…: confronting sexual and gender inequality in HIV prevention work / Héctor Carrillo -- Circuit culture : ethnographic reflections on inequality, sexuality, and life on the gay party circuit / Christopher Carrington -- Confesiones de mujer : the Catholic Church and sacred morality in the sex lives of Mexican immigrant women / Gloria González-López -- Disability and sexuality : toward a constructionist focus on access and the inclusion of disabled people in the sexual rights movement / Russell P. …”
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Ethics Dumping Case Studies from North-South Research Collaborations /

Table of Contents: “…-Hepatitis B Study with Gender Inequities -- Healthy Volunteers in Clinical Studies.…”
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The sex of class women transforming American labor /

Table of Contents: “…Increasing class disparities among women and the politics of gender equity / Leslie McCall -- More than raising the floor : the persistence of gender inequalities in the low-wage labor market / Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann, and Misha Werschkul -- Two worlds of unionism : women and the new labor movement / Ruth Milkman -- The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender challenge to American labor / Gerald Hunt and Monica Bielski Boris -- Sex discrimination as collective harm / Marion Crain -- Changing work, changing people : a conversation with union organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center / Lydia Savage -- Unions fight for work and family policies- not for women only / Netsy Firestein and Nicola Dones -- Working women's insurgent consciousness / Karen Nussbaum -- "We were the invisible workforce" : unionizing home care / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- Expanding labor's vision : the challenges of workfare and welfare organizing / Vanessa Tait -- Worker centers and immigrant women / Janice Fine -- Female immigrant workers and the law : limits and opportunities / Maria L. …”
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Gendered commodity chains : seeing women's work and households in global production /

Table of Contents: “…Ross -- Patriarchy reconsolidated : women's work in three global commodity chains of Turkey's garment industry / Saniye Dedeoglu -- Chilean temporeras and corporate construction of gender inequalities in global food standards / Carmen Bain -- Informal provisioning chains versus commodity chains : marketing of indigenous poverty and culture as threats to households and women / Kathleen Pickering Sherman and Andrea Akers -- Commodity chained fishing households : peasant subsidization of exports in a Philippine seafood extractive enclave / Maria Cecilia Ferolin -- Global care chains : bringing in transnational reproductive laborer households / Nicola Yeates -- The international division of reproductive labor and sex trafficking commodity chains / Nadia Shapkina -- Decomposition of industrial commodity chains, household semiproletarianization and arenas for resistance at the center / Dave Broad -- Bringing resistance to the conceptual center : threats to social reproduction and feminist activism in Nicaraguan commodity chains / Marina Prieto-Carron.…”
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