This volume provides a detailed description of the situation of women in employment in the early 1990s and considers how sociological and economic theories of labor markets illuminate the gap in pay between the sexes.
Paula England is professor of sociology at New York University, USA where she specializes in the areas of changing family patterns, sexual behavior, gender and labor markets, and interdisciplinary integration. She is the author or editor of numerous books including Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America, and Unmarried Couples with Children.
Innehållsförteckning
1: Segregation and the Pay Gap; 2: Theories of Labor Markets; 3: Pay in Female and Male Occupations: Findings from National Data; 4: Job Evaluation; 5: Pay Equity and the Federal Courts; 6: Feminism and Other Philosophical Positions; 7: Policy Debates
