Format:
1 online resource (276 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781904385165
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9781135310882
Series Statement:
Contemporary Issues in Public Policy Series
Content:
This updated edition of Catherine Hakim's classic text addresses all the key issues currently debated in relation to women's work - in the domestic sphere, as well as paid employment
Note:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Cases -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Explaining Women's Subordination -- Key issues in women's employment -- Theoretical perspectives -- Patriarchy and male dominance: Goldberg -- Patriarchy, male organisation and job segregation: Hartmann -- Rational choices within families: Becker -- Preference theory: Hakim -- Feminist debates -- A cross-national comparative review -- 2 Marginal Employment, Voluntary Work, Unpaid Household Work -- Work and employment: the conceptual framework -- Marginal market work -- Family workers -- Home-based work -- The informal economy -- Seasonal and temporary work -- Non-standard employment -- Voluntary work and civic participation -- Household work -- Reproductive and caring work -- Status of the housewife and househusband -- Conclusions -- 3 Feminisation of the Workforce -- The creation of a part-time workforce -- Part-time workers and secondary earners -- Globalisation and the demasculinisation of work -- Childcare services and homecare allowances -- Do welfare states matter? -- Conclusions -- 4 Work Values, Work Plans and Social Interaction in the Workplace -- Attitudes to the sexual division of labour -- Work-life balance -- Work orientations -- Work commitment and work centrality -- Workplans -- Attitudes to authority and male dominance -- Social interaction -- Do attitudes determine behaviour? -- Conclusions -- 5 Labour Mobility and Women's Employment Profiles -- Changing perspectives -- The sources of change -- The impact of childbirth on employment -- Sample selection bias -- Movement in and out of the labour force -- Continuity of employment over the life cycle: three employment profiles -- The implications of intermittent employment -- Conclusions
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6 Occupational Segregation and the Pay Gap -- Job segregation and labour market segmentation -- Vertical job segregation and the pay gap -- The impact of equal opportunities laws -- Measures of occupational segregation -- The new pattern of occupational segregation -- Masculine and feminine work cultures -- A segregated part-time workforce -- Long term trends 1891-1991 -- The sex differential in earnings -- Cross-national comparisons -- The devaluation of women's work -- The returns to education -- Contextual factors -- The glass ceiling and the glass escalator -- Conclusions -- 7 Social Engineering: The Role of the Law -- Four mechanisms of social engineering -- The development of discrimination law -- Social science evidence on indirect discrimination -- The problem of female heterogeneity -- Conclusions -- 8 Conclusions: Female Diversity and Workforce Polarisation -- True lies -- Sex and gender -- Female heterogeneity -- Polarisation within the workforce -- Sex differentials -- Feminism and public attitude -- Rethinking patriarchy and male dominance -- Explaining women's subordination -- Looking ahead -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Hakim, Catherine Key Issues in Women's Work Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2004 ISBN 9781904385165
Language:
English
Keywords:
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