The declining significance of gender? /

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Imprint:New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2006.
Description:1 online resource (x, 296 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation.
Subject:Sex discrimination in employment.
Pay equity.
Sex discrimination against women.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Pay equity.
Sex discrimination against women.
Sex discrimination in employment.
Discrimination sexuelle dans l'emploi.
Égalité de rémunération.
Discrimination à l'égard des femmes.
71.31 sexes and their interrelations.
Arbeitswelt
Beschäftigung
Diskriminierung
Einkommensunterschied
Frau.
Geschlechterrolle
Gleichberechtigung
Soziale Ungleichheit
Wirtschaftssoziologie
Arbeitsmarkt
Familie.
Sekseverschillen.
Ongelijkheid.
Vrouwendiscriminatie.
Diskriminierung -- Frau.
Frau -- Diskriminierung.
Lohngleichheit -- Frau und Mann.
Frau und Mann -- Lohngleichheit.
Arbeitswelt -- Frau.
Frau -- Arbeitswelt.
Frau -- Lohngleichheit -- Diskriminierung -- Arbeitsplatz -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Frau : Diskriminierung.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11226728
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Other authors / contributors:Blau, Francine D., editor.
Brinton, Mary C., editor.
Grusky, David B., editor.
ISBN:9781610440622
1610440625
9780871540928
0871540924
9780871543707
0871543702
0871540924
9780871540928
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 29, 2015).
Summary:"The last half-century has witnessed substantial change in the opportunities and rewards available to men and women in the workplace. While the gender pay gap narrowed and female labor force participation rose dramatically in recent decades, some dimensions of gender inequality--most notably the division of labor in the family--have been more resistant to change, or have changed more slowly in recent years than in the past. These trends suggest that one of two possible futures could lie ahead: an optimistic scenario in which gender inequalities continue to erode, or a pessimistic scenario where contemporary institutional arrangements persevere and the gender revolution stalls. In The Declining Significance of Gender?, editors Francine Blau, Mary Brinton, and David Grusky bring together top gender scholars in sociology and economics to make sense of the recent changes in gender inequality, and to judge whether the optimistic or pessimistic view better depicts the prospects and bottlenecks that lie ahead. It examines the economic, organizational, political, and cultural forces that have changed the status of women and men in the labor market. The contributors examine the economic assumption that discrimination in hiring is economically inefficient and will be weeded out eventually by market competition. They explore the effect that family-family organizational policies have had in drawing women into the workplace and giving them even footing in the organizational hierarchy. Several chapters ask whether political interventions might reduce or increase gender inequality, and others discuss whether a social ethos favoring egalitarianism is working to overcome generations of discriminatory treatment against women. Although there is much rhetoric about the future of gender inequality, The Declining Significance of Gender? provides a sustained attempt to consider analytically the forces that are shaping the gender revolution. Its wide-ranging analysis of contemporary gender disparities will stimulate readers to think more deeply and in new ways about the extent to which gender remains a major fault line of inequality."--Publisher's website.
Other form:Print version: Blau, Francine D. Declining Significance of Gender? New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2008 9780871543707
Standard no.:9780871540928
99813443616
Table of Contents:
  • The declining significance of gender? / Francine D. Blau, Mary C. Brinton, and David B. Grusky
  • The gender pay gap : going, going-- but not gone / Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn
  • The rising (and then declining) significance of gender / Claudia Goldin
  • How the life-cycle human-capital model explains why the gender wage gap narrowed / Solomon W. Polachek
  • How much progress in closing the long-term earnings gap? / Heidi Hartmann, Stephen J. Rose, and Vicky Lovell
  • The glass ceiling in the United States and Sweden : lessons from the family-friendly corner of the world, 1970-1990 / Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom and Trond Petersen
  • Opposing forces : how, why, and when will gender inequality disappear? / Robert Max Jackson
  • Toward gender equality : progress and bottlenecks / Paula England
  • Gender as an organizing force in social relations : implications for the future of inequality / Cecilia L. Ridgeway.