Christine Bose is Associate Professor of Sociology and former Director of Women's Studies at State University of New York at Albany. She is the author of Jobs and Gender: A Study of Occupational Prestige and co-editor of the forthcoming Hidden Aspects of Women's Work. Glenna Spitze is Associate Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor in the Women's Studies Program at State University of New York at Albany. She is the co-author of Sex Stratification: Children Housework and Jobs and co-editor of Women and Politics: Activism, Attitudes, and Office-holding.

"This collection of essays on women's employment makes an important contribution to the field of women and work. Although the articles cover a wide range of subjects (labor migration, union leadership, occupational segregation, the gender gap in earnings, underemployment and unemployment, and the many issues raised by comparable worth), they form an admirably coherent whole which contributes to a high level of analysis. Collectively the essays keep at the forefront an examination of the structure of the labor market, especially occupational segregation, and use gender as a conceptual framework rather than focusing on the special experiences of women in various occupations and settings. This book represents the latest and most fruitful thinking in a field which is of direct interest not only to academics and scholars, but to everyone concerned with the latest developments in women's increased participation in the labor force." — Carole Turbin, Empire State College

• PrefaceChristine Bose and Glenna SpitzeIntroductionChristine Bose and Glenna SpitzeI. Structural and Historical Trends 1. Status Hierarchies and Sex SegregationBarbara F. Reskin and Patricia A. Roos2. Intraindustry Occupational Recomposition and Gender Inequality in EarningsMarta Tienda and Vilma Ortiz3. The Increase of Black and White Women in the Professions: A Contradictory ProcessNatalie J. Sokoloff4. Employment for Professional Black Women in the Twentieth CenturyElizabeth Higginbotham5. Women, Labor Migration and Household Work: Japanese American Women in the Pre-War PeriodEvelyn Nakano Glenn6. Young Women's Choice of Nontraditional OccupationsSue E. Berryman and Linda J. WaiteII. Policy and Change Strategies 7. Union Stewards and Women's Employment ConditionsPamela Roby8. Equitable Compensation: Methodological Criteria for Comparable WorthRonnie Steinberg and Lois Haignere9. Sex Bias in Job Evaluation: A Comparable Worth IssueJoan Acker10. On the Edge: Marginal Women Workers and Employment PolicyDiana M. Pearce11. Undoing Discrimination: Job Integration and Comparable WorthWilliam T. Bielby and James N. BaronIII. Commentary 12. Comparable Worth, Gender and Human Capital TheoryJoan Smith13. Changes in Labor Force Opportunities: An AppraisalFrancine D. Blau14. Comparable Worth: The Relationship of Method and PoliticsRoslyn L. Feldberg15. Comparable Worth and Women's Economic IndependenceHeidi I. Hartmann16. In Praise of Useable Research for an Action AgendaCynthia H. Chertos ReferencesContributor's NotesIndex