The Economic Emergence of Women

B. Bergmann

• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Año: 2005
• ISBN:
  9781403982582
• Edición: 2
• Categoría: Sozialwissenschaften
• Categoría: Genderforschung

This new edition of a classic feminist book explains how one of the great historical revolutions - the ongoing movement toward equality between the sexes - has come about. Its origins are to be found, not in changing ideas, but in the economic developments that have made women's labour too valuable to be spent exclusively in domestic pursuits. The revolution is unfinished; new arrangements are needed to fight still-prevalent discrimination in the workplace, to achieve a more just sharing of housework and childcare between women and men, and, with the weakening of the institution of marriage, to re-erect a firm economic basis for the raising of children.

Índice

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 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
• Appendix
• Notes
• Index