Women and Work

ISBN-13: 9781138243156 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 190 str.

Ross Davies

Opis

In this book, first published in 1975, the author examines the role of women in the workforce. Despite representing a rapidly increasing section of the workforce, why are women still overwhelmingly confined to unskilled jobs? Why do they hold such a tiny proportion of managerial and professional posts? In answering these vital questions Ross Davies shows how women’s economic roles in pre-industrial society were modified and distorted by industrialisation; how this legacy of exploitation has affected contemporary attitudes among both men and women; and how the present situation should be seen and assessed in its proper perspective.

Spis treści

1. Working Women Today: A Wasted Resource  2. Pre-Industrial Woman  3. The Industrial Revolution  4. Trade Unions: Men Only  5. The Professions Close Ranks  6. The Two World Wars: Votes and Jobs  7. Women’s Attitudes to Work  8. Work’s Attitudes to Women  9. Women and the Professions Today: Too Little, Too Late  10. Married Women: Burying the Talents  11. Second Thoughts Set In  12. Equality and the Law

O autorze

Ross Davies