Women and Work

Höfundur Sonia Carreon

Útgefandi Taylor & Francis

Snið ePub

Print ISBN 9780824076474

Útgáfa 1

Útgáfuár 1996

8.690 kr.

Description

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  • Cover Page
  • Half Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Origins of the Handbook
  • Contents of the Volume
  • Final Thoughts
  • Section I Women’s Labor-Force Participation in the U.S. Patterns and Issues
  • General Patterns of Employment/Unemployment
  • Women’s Changing Labor-Force Participation in the U.S.
  • Bibliography
  • Women and Part-Time Work
  • Trends in Part-Time Labor
  • Differences According to Work Status
  • Part-Time Work as an Occupational Choice
  • Consequences and Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Self-Employed Women in the United States
  • Self-Employment and Family Responsibilities
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Working-Class Women and Work
  • Bibliography
  • Young Women at Work
  • Bibliography
  • Women and Unemployment in the U.S.
  • Bibliography
  • Women and Retirement in the U.S.
  • Bibliography
  • Women in the U.S. Labor Movement
  • Bibliography
  • Women’s Status in American Labor Unions
  • The History of Women’s Membership and Representation in Unions
  • Union Policies Support for Legislation and Collective Bargaining
  • Bibliography
  • Intersection of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Work
  • African-American Women and Work
  • Labor-Force Participation of African-American Women
  • Occupational Changes
  • Bibliography
  • Latinas in the U.S. Labor Force
  • Bibliography
  • Immigrant Women in the U.S. and Work
  • Bibliography
  • Domestic Workers and Their Employers
  • Bibliography
  • Appalachian Women and Work
  • Bibliography
  • Greek Ethnic Women in the U.S.
  • The Early Immigrants: The Pioneers
  • The Later Migrants
  • Native-Born Greek Ethnic Women
  • Bibliography
  • Women and Work in the South after the Civil War
  • Bibliography
  • Women in the Civil Rights Movement
  • Bibliography
  • Economic Aspects of Women’s Labor-Force Participation
  • Gender and Earnings
  • Bibliography
  • Income Inequality
  • Bibliography
  • Occupational Skill, Gender, and Earnings
  • Gender Differences in Demands for Occupational Skill
  • Social/Nurturant Skill and Earnings
  • Percentage of Female Workers and Earnings
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Gender and Race Impacts on Occupational Segregation, Prestige, and Earnings
  • Bibliography
  • Comparable Worth and the Labor Market
  • Bibliography
  • Gender-Related Differences in Pension Coverage
  • Bibliography
  • Income Possession in Couples
  • Bibliography
  • Economics of Housework
  • Bibliography
  • Gender-Based Division of Labor in the U.S.
  • Occupational Sex-Typing
  • Bibliography
  • Sex Type and Prestige of Occupations
  • Bibliography
  • Gender-Segregated Occupations
  • Bibliography
  • Sex Segregation in the Workplace
  • Bibliography
  • Full-Time Homemaker as Unpaid Laborer
  • Bibliography
  • Section II Approaches to Analyzing Women and Work
  • The Measure of Female Labor-Force Attachment
  • Bibliography
  • Geographic Aspects of Women and Work
  • Bibliography
  • Human Capital Theory
  • Bibliography
  • The Interdependence of Housework and Paid Work
  • Household Labor
  • Household Labor Time and Paid Labor Time
  • Household Labor Time and Earnings
  • Integrating Paid and Unpaid Labor
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • The Sex Segregation of Occupations: Structural Approaches
  • Bibliography
  • Dimensions of Sex Segregation in the Workplace
  • Bibliography
  • Women in the Professions: Assessing Progress
  • A Conceptual Overview of the Professions
  • Women’s Labor within Some Dimensions of Professional Activity
  • Ironic Outcomes and Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Sex Stereotypes: An Underlying Dimension
  • Bibliography
  • Women’s Adult Development
  • Bibliography
  • Integrated Women: A Conceptual Framework
  • Bibliography
  • Flexible Conceptual Style: Its Implications for Cultural Redefinition
  • Bibliography
  • Section III Women in Diverse Occupations
  • Overview of Women’s Occupational Diversity
  • Women in High-Status, Nontraditional Occupations
  • Problems Experienced by Women in High-Status, Nontraditional Occupations
  • Understanding Such Unique Issues for Women in High-Status, Nontraditional Positions
  • Bibliography
  • Gender and the Scientific Professions
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • Women in the Service Occupation Sector
  • Bibliography
  • Women in Blue-Collar Occupations
  • History
  • Explanations of Women’s Under-Representation
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Women in Science and Medicine
  • Women Physicians
  • Women’s Distribution in Medicine
  • Practice Structures and Work Patterns
  • Discrimination against Women Doctors
  • Professional Orientations and Values
  • Personal-Life Values
  • Recent Developments
  • Bibliography
  • Women in Science
  • Bibliography
  • Women In Diverse Occupations
  • Bibliography
  • Midwives
  • American Midwifery, 1650 to 1930
  • Contemporary Midwifery in the United States
  • Bibliography
  • Health-Care Professionals
  • Bibliography
  • Women in Education
  • Women in Academia
  • Women’s Representation in Academia
  • Gendered Divisions of Labor
  • Women’s Research Productivity
  • Scholarship by and about Women
  • Bibliography
  • Women of Color in Academe
  • An Overview of Women of Color in Academe
  • Barriers Faced by Women of Color in Academe
  • Structural Barriers
  • Sociocultural Barriers
  • Personal and Psychological Barriers
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Women as Teachers: A Historical Perspective (1830–1990)
  • Bibliography
  • Women in the K-12 Public School Superintendency
  • Bibliography
  • Women in Other Professions
  • Women Clergy
  • Bibliography
  • American Catholic Sisters
  • Bibliography
  • Women in Journalism
  • Bibliography
  • Women in Broadcasting
  • Bibliography
  • Women in Law
  • Bibliography
  • Women in Organizational Communications and Public Relations
  • Issues Women Face
  • Bibliography
  • Women in Public Accounting
  • World War II: Reluctant Acceptance
  • The Postwar Years: Prejudices Remain
  • 1960 to 1970: Legislation and Discrimination
  • 1970 to 1990: Greater Acceptance
  • Future Trends and Challenges
  • Bibliography
  • Women in Other Occupations
  • Women Entrepreneurs
  • Bibliography
  • Women in the Military (1890-1990)
  • Bibliography
  • Women Office Workers
  • Bibliography
  • Women in Factory Work
  • Bibliography
  • Women in the Garment Industry
  • Historical Development of the Garment Industry
  • Internal Organization of the Industry
  • Labor Organizations
  • Internationalization of Capital and Labor
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Prostitution
  • Bibliography
  • Section IV Factors Influencing Career and Occupational Choice
  • White Women’s Higher Education: Coeducation and Gender Role Expectations, 1870-1890
  • Bibliography
  • Gender Ideology in Early-Twentieth-Century Black Educational Reform
  • Bibliography
  • Contemporary College Women’s Career Plans
  • Bibliography
  • Computer Language Effects on Educational/Career Choices of Women
  • Design and Development of Computers
  • Women’s Education/Employment Choices in the Information Age
  • Bibliography
  • Women, Work, and Religion
  • Religion, Gender, and Labor-Force Participation
  • Bibliography
  • Role Models and Occupational Choice
  • Bibliography
  • Sex, Gender Stereotypes, and Work
  • Sex, Gender Stereotypes, and Occupational Choice
  • Sex and Job Satisfaction
  • Gender Stereotypes, Sex-Typing of Work, and Job Satisfaction
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Bibliography
  • Section V Legal Factors Affecting Women’s Work and Opportunity
  • Protective Legislation in American Courts
  • Bibliography
  • Relevant Cases
  • Women’s Work and Protective Legislation
  • Bibliography
  • Relevant Cases
  • Women’s Rights in the Labor Market
  • Bibliography
  • Relevant Cases
  • Affirmative Action
  • Observers’ Responses to Sex-Based Selection
  • Sex-Based Selection and the Beneficiary
  • Counterbalancing Factors
  • Bibliography
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Models of Sexual Harassment
  • Judging Complaints of Sexual Harassment
  • Victim Responses to Sexual Harassment
  • Bibliography
  • Sexual Harassment: Legal and Policy Issues
  • Bibliography
  • Relevant Cases
  • Family Support Act
  • Provisions of the Family Support Act
  • Child Support and Establishment of Paternity
  • Job Training
  • Assessment
  • Education and Employment Services
  • Supportive Services
  • Transitional Services
  • Positive Aspects and Limitations of FSA for Women
  • Initial Experiences and Evaluation
  • Bibliography
  • Job-Protected Leave For Family and Medical Reasons
  • Bibliography
  • Section VI Work Experiences and the Organizational Context of Work
  • Women’s Work Experiences
  • Gender and Orientation toward Work
  • Bibliography
  • Gender Differences in Work Interests
  • Two Theories of Gender and Work Interests
  • A Summary of Attitude Research Findings
  • Work Interests and Work Behavior
  • Work Orientations and Discrimination
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Women’s Work Commitment
  • Bibliography
  • Women and Job Satisfaction
  • Job Characteristics
  • Family Characteristics
  • Personal Expectations
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Women’s Educational Leadership Experience
  • Bibliography
  • Women’s Drinking and the Workplace
  • Bibliography
  • Race and Sex Discrimination: A Comparison
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Sexual Harassment: Psychological and Behavioral Issues
  • Bibliography
  • Factors Influencing Work Performance and Effectiveness
  • Computers, Gender, and Elementary-School Teaching
  • Computing among Elementary-School Teachers
  • Bibliography
  • Male-Female Communication in the Workplace: Invisible Barriers to Upward Mobility
  • The Male Managerial Model
  • Male-Female Communications
  • Impact of Gender-Role Stereotypes in the Workplace
  • New Directions for Research on Male-Female Communications
  • Bibliography
  • Successful Job Search and Informal Networks
  • Bibliography
  • Human Resource’s Challenge: The Work-Family Interface
  • Bibliography
  • Gender’s Influence on Organizational Structure and Culture
  • The Stratification of Women within Organizations
  • Vertical and Horizontal Segregation within Organizations
  • Theories Concerning Gender Segregation
  • Bibliography
  • Organizational Culture
  • Bibliography
  • Organizational Sexuality
  • Bibliography
  • Sexual Coercion in the Workplace
  • Bibliography
  • Gender-Based Bias and Discrimination
  • Sex Discrimination at Work
  • Bibliography
  • Discrimination against Married Women
  • Bibliography
  • Sex Bias in Performance Evaluations
  • Alternative Approaches to Understanding Sex Bias
  • When Is Sex Bias Likely?
  • Bibliography
  • Persistent Gender Bias in Personnel Decisions
  • Number of Women in the Executive Positions
  • Actual Abilities and Work Behavior
  • Differences in Perceptions, Subjective Evaluations, and Personnel Decisions: Attitudes toward Women
  • Attributions and Evaluations of Performance of Women
  • Other Decisions
  • Understanding Gender Biases at Work
  • Bibliography
  • Gender and Workplace Dispute Resolution
  • Gender Roles and Workplace Dispute Resolution
  • Occupational Sex Segregation and Workplace Dispute Resolution
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Management and Organizational Mobility
  • Academic Mentors as Gatekeepers
  • Definition of Mentoring
  • Mentoring as a Selective Process
  • Effects of Mentoring
  • Bibliography
  • Influences on Women’s Managerial Advancement
  • The Work Environment: Development
  • The Work Environment: Structure
  • Work-Relevant Experiences
  • The Home Environment
  • Attitudes
  • Early Background
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • The Advancement of Women in Post-Secondary Educational Administration
  • Bibliography
  • Beyond the Stereotypes: Women in Leadership Roles
  • Past Research
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Future Research
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • The Upward Mobility of Women in Organizations: Directions for Future Research
  • Directions for Future Research
  • A Study of Factors Associated with Women’s Upward Mobility
  • Sex-Role Socialization
  • Career Paths
  • Career Attitudes
  • Career-Family Issues and Family Policy
  • Mentoring and Career Development
  • Factors Affecting Women’s Upward Mobility and Career Plateaus
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • Programs and Strategies for Change
  • Resistance in the Workplace
  • Bibliography
  • Corporate Programs for Preventing Sexual Harassment
  • Bibliography
  • Remedying Gender-Based Wage Discrimination: The Comparable Worth Approach
  • Job Content
  • Job Analysis
  • Job Descriptions
  • Job Classification
  • Job Evaluation
  • Comparable Worth Processes
  • Bibliography
  • Section VII Issues Emerging from the Intersection of Work and Family
  • Overview of Work and Family Linkages
  • Work-Family Linkages in Early Industrialization: The Public-Private Split
  • Preindustrial Societies and the Division of Labor
  • Early Capitalist Industrialization
  • Working-Class Experiences
  • Social Class Differences in the Ideology of Public-Private Spheres
  • Race Differences in the Experience of Public-Private Spheres
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Gender Segregation of Housework
  • Measuring the Household Division of Labor
  • Measuring the Gender-Based Segregation of Family Work
  • Bibliography
  • Career, Family, and Changing Life Course Patterns
  • Bibliography
  • Working Women and Eldercare
  • Consequences of Caregiving Responsibilities
  • Assistance for Caregivers
  • Benefits of Employer Support
  • Bibliography
  • Providing for Children in the Work/Family Arrangement
  • Planning to Combine Work and Child-Rearing
  • Plans for Integrating Employment and Child-Rearing
  • Stability or Change between Plans and Actions
  • Bibliography
  • Employment and Child Care
  • Bibliography
  • Shift Work and Child Care
  • Bibliography
  • Maternal Role Conflict
  • Bibliography
  • Maternal Occupational Conditions and Children’s Family Environments
  • Bibliography
  • Maternal Working Conditions, Childcare, and Cognition
  • Bibliography
  • Maternal Employment and Children’s Achievement
  • Bibliography
  • Maternal Working Conditions and Children’s Behavior Problems
  • Bibliography
  • Childbirth and Career Interruptions
  • Bibliography
  • The “Mommy Track”: Impact of Family Life on Women in the Professoriate
  • Bibliography
  • Section VIII Cross-Cultural Issues and International Studies
  • Cross-National Comparisons
  • Women’s Labor-Force Participation in Advanced Industrial Countries
  • Bibliography
  • Women and Agriculture in the Developing World
  • Bibliography
  • Gender Inequality in Labor-Force Participation across Nations (circa 1980)
  • Bibliography
  • The Division of Household Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • Understanding Household Labor
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Household Labor
  • Conclusion and Discussion
  • Bibliography
  • Women in Advanced Industrial Societies
  • Australian Women in Paid Employment
  • Bibliography
  • Australian Men and Women Managers
  • Work Environment
  • Hierarchical Advancement
  • Home Environment
  • Bibliography
  • Australia: Immigrant Women and Work
  • Bibliography
  • French Women’s Educational Opportunities
  • Bibliography
  • Women in East Germany
  • Bibliography
  • Japanese Women: A Historical Overview
  • Bibliography
  • Contemporary Japanese Women: Family, Education, and Workplace
  • Bibliography
  • Occupational Sex Segregation in New Zealand, 1971, 1976, 1981
  • Bibliography
  • Efforts toward Gender Equity in Sweden
  • Bibliography
  • Women in Newly Industrialized Societies
  • Women, Work, Patriarchy, and Development in India
  • Bibliography
  • Women’s Earnings in Israel
  • Bibliography
  • Women and Work in Mexico
  • Marriage, Family Socialization, and Identity
  • Women in the World of Work
  • Bibliography
  • Filipino Women’s Educational and Occupational Opportunities
  • Bibliography
  • Women and Work in Singapore
  • Bibliography
  • Women in Developing Societies
  • African Women in Economic Development
  • Precolonial Period (Before 1800s)
  • Colonial Period (1800-1950s)
  • Postcolonial Period (Independent States, 1940s-the present)
  • Bibliography
  • Changing Roles of Chinese Women: 2000 B.C. to 1949
  • Cultural Factors Shaping Women’s Roles
  • Women’s Status during the Late Dynastic Era (1890-1912)
  • Women’s Liberation Efforts
  • Bibliography
  • Women in the People’s Republic of China (1949-the Present)
  • The Promise of the 1949 Revolution
  • Current Status of Chinese Women
  • Bibliography
  • Nicaraguan Women in the Formal and Informal Economy
  • Perspectives on “Informal” Work in Development
  • Informally Employed Women in Rural and Urban Settings
  • Women and Work in Nicaragua
  • Bibliography
  • Nigerian Women
  • Informal Entrepreneurship Activities
  • Formal Entrepreneurship Activities
  • Success Factors
  • Bibliography
  • Palestinian Women in the Israeli-Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip
  • Bibliography
  • Birth Control and Development in Three Latin American Countries
  • Birth Control in Latin America
  • Puerto Rico
  • Cuba
  • Nicaragua
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Subject Index
  • Author Index

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