Women, Labor Segmentation and Regulation
Varieties of Gender Gaps
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Beschreibung
This book re-shapes thinking on ‘gender gaps’—differences between men and women in their incomes, their employment and their conditions of work. It shows how the interaction between regulation distance and content, labor segmentation and norms helps us understand various aspects of gender gaps.
It brings together leading authors from industrial relations, sociology, politics, and feminist economics, who outline the roles the family, state public policy, trade unions and class play in creating gender gaps, and consider the lessons from international comparisons. While many studies have focused on the role of society or organizations, this book also pays attention to the role of occupations in promoting and reinforcing gender gaps, discussing groups such as apparel outworkers, film and video workers, care workers, public-sector professionals like librarians, chief executives, academics, and coal miners.
Thisbook will be of interest to practitioners, policy makers, academics and students interested in understanding why inequality between men and women persists today—and what might be done about it.
This book re-shapes thinking on ‘gender gaps’—differences between men and women in their incomes, their employment and their conditions of work. It shows how the interaction between regulation distance and content, labor segmentation and norms helps us understand various aspects of gender gaps.
It brings together leading authors from industrial relations, sociology, politics, and feminist economics, who outline the roles the family, state public policy, trade unions and class play in creating gender gaps, and consider the lessons from international comparisons. While many studies have focused on the role of society or organizations, this book also pays attention to the role of occupations in promoting and reinforcing gender gaps, discussing groups such as apparel outworkers, film and video workers, care workers, public-sector professionals like librarians, chief executives, academics, and coal miners.
Thisbook will be of interest to practitioners, policy makers, academics and students interested in understanding why inequality between men and women persists today—and what might be done about it.
Debates the ongoing, key issue of gender inequality in employment, focusing on the role of occupations in promoting gender gaps. Provides an international and interdisciplinary perspective on income and employment inequality. Proposes policy solutions to gender inequality for the 21st century.
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David Peetz
Themen in »Women, Labor Segmentation and Regulation«
Gender gaps Gender and work Labor segmentation Employment regulation Cross-national comparison of gender gaps
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“This is an interesting and timely book, given the obligation in the UK for large organizations to publish their (admittedly skimpy) gender pay gap data, and the prevalence in the media of stories about women in the media and elsewhere being paid less than colleagues. … this book should be essential reading for those interested in their abolition.” (Harriet Bradley, Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 48 (2), April, 2019)
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