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Author Bergmann, Barbara R.

Title The economic emergence of women [electronic resource] / Barbara R. Bergmann.

Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 2nd ed., 1st ed.
Description 255 p. : ill.
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Women -- United States -- Economic conditions.
Women -- Employment -- United States.
Sex discrimination against women -- United States.
Housewives -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 1403982589
0312219415
0312232438 (pbk.)

 
    
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