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The economic emergence of women
- Title
- The economic emergence of women / Barbara R. Bergmann.
- Author
- Bergmann, Barbara R.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. ; Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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| Text | Request in advance | HQ1426 .B429 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 255 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-250) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0312219415
- 0312232438 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2005040556
- OCLC
- ocm57730952
- SCSB-5210656
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries