The economic emergence of women / Barbara R. Bergmann.

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Year of Publication:2005
Edition:2nd ed., 1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:255 p. :; ill.
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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.