Even though women have made substantial progress in a number of formerly male occupations, sex segregation in the workplace remains a fact of life. This volume probes pertinent questions: Why has the overall degree of sex segregation remained stable in this century? What informal barriers keep it in place? How do socialization and educational practices affect career choices and hiring patterns? How do family responsibilities affect women's work attitudes? And how effective is legislation in lessening the gap between the sexes? Amply supplemented with tables, figures, and insightful...
Even though women have made substantial progress in a number of formerly male occupations, sex segregation in the workplace remains a fact of life....
Discusses, in depth, how women and women's perspectives are changing politics and policy, in both the United States and around the world. Including several tables and figures to present data and ideas, this book is useful for educators, advanced undergraduate and graduate students in women's studies, political science, and public policy.
Discusses, in depth, how women and women's perspectives are changing politics and policy, in both the United States and around the world. Including se...
Find out how welfare reform has affected women living at the poverty level Women, Work, and Poverty presents the latest information on women living at or below the poverty level and the changes that need to be made in public policy to allow them to rise above their economic hardships. Using a wide range of research methods, including in-depth interviews, focus groups, small-scale surveys, and analysis of personnel records, the book explores different aspects of women's poverty since the passage of the 1986 welfare reform bill. Anthropologists, economists, political scientists, sociologists,...
Find out how welfare reform has affected women living at the poverty level Women, Work, and Poverty presents the latest information on women living at...