Women and Men at Work

Irene Padavic is an Associate Professor at Florida State University. Before becoming a professor, she worked in a variety of service-sector jobs: candy seller at a movie theater, waitperson, telephone solicitor, door-to-door promoter of real estate, paralegal, and marketing researcher. Her dissertation project provided experience in the industrial sector, where she worked as a coal-handler in a power plant. Her research has been in the areas of gender and work, race differences in campus peer culture, economic restructuring, and changes in childcare arrangements.  Barbara Reskin is a Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and, when this book went to press, President of the American Sociological Association. As a student, she supported herself in a series of female-dominated clerical jobs in such disparate settings as radio and TV stations, trucking firms, temp agencies, insurance companies, and universities. The fact that most jobs for women were boring, low-paid and deadend encouraged her to get a PhD. Her research examines how workers’ sex, race, and ethnicity affect their work opportunities. She is especially interested in strategies that minimize discrimination, the focus of her most recent book, The Realities of Affirmative Action.

I used this textbook for the last two years (2011-spring 2013).I appreciated the direct writing style and the humorous cartoons that lightened the subject matter for the students.However, I plan to replace this book with the Volti book for the upcoming fall semester, 2013.

• Work and GenderWhat Work IsSex and GenderGendered WorkSummaryGendered Work in Time and PlaceThe Sexual Division of Labor in Preindustrial EuropeThe Industrial RevolutionThe Sexual Divison of Paid and Unpaid WorkThe Sexual Division of Labor Around the WorldSummaryAn Overview of Sex Inequality at WorkSex Inequality in the Contemporary American WorkplaceExplanations for Sex Inequality in the WorkplaceSummarySex Segregation in the WorkplaceConsequenses of Sex SegregationA History of Sex Segregation in the United StatesTrends in Sex SegregationExplanations and Remedies for Sex SegregationSummaryMoving Up and Taking ChargeWomen, Men, and PromotionsWomen, Men, and AuthorityExplanations and Remedies for the Promotion Authority GapsSummarySex Differences in EarningsThe Cost of Being FemaleExplaning the Pay GapEmployers′ Discriminatory ActionsSummaryPaid Work and Family WorkThe Decline of the Stay-at-Home Wife and MotherWork-Family ConflictThe Sexual Division of Labor and Work-Family ConflictResponses to Work-Family ConflictsSummaryReferences