Workplace/Women's Place

by Dubeck, Paula; Dunn, Dana

• ISBN13: 9780195335262
• ISBN10: 0195335260
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The articles in the Third Edition of Workplace/Women's Place are highly accessible to undergraduates. The book's interdisciplinary approach offers a social-science emphasis, documenting important trends in women's work lives with quantitative and qualitative evidence from both scholarly and journalistic sources. This edition probes the continuing challenges that women face as they enter and participate in the world of work. The new articles illuminate factors that influence women's preparation for work and the occupations they choose. The articles also demonstrate the challenges women encounter in the workplace and in seeking to balance the demands of work and family life. Work experiences of diverse groups of women highlight both their unique experiences and the similarity of experiences that cross-cut racial and ethnic identity. In addition, this anthology provides an examination and assessment of a number of policies that have developed as a response to the changing labor force participation of women over the past three decades. Major concepts are highlighted and explained in the introductions to the units, which also provide background information. "Food for Thought and Application" questions at the end of each reading are included to encourage the synthesis of information and to explore possible solutions to some of women's most vexing problems in today's workplace. This edition also includes an appendix of data and trends relating to women and work, including labor-force participation rates, earnings, the wage gap, occupational concentration, and family-work data.

Author Biography

Paula J. Dubeck is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. She is coeditor of Challenges for Work and Family in the Twenty-First Century (1998).
Dana Dunn is provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Table of Contents

New to the third edition Each unit begins with an Introduction

Introduction to the Study of Women and Work

Becoming Workers: Girls' Socialization for Employment

Parental Influence and Women's Careers

Shortchanging Girls: Gender Socialization in Schools, Peggy Orenstein (in association with the American Association of University Women)

Gender and Career Choice Process: The Role of Biased Self-Assessment

Workplace Inequality: Gendered Structures and Their Consequences

Women's Employment Among Blacks, Whites, and Three Groups of Latinas: Do More Privileged Women Have Higher Employment?

Gendered Jobs and Gendered Workers

Sex Segregation in the Workplace

The Penny Pinch, Christine Larson

Women, Men, and Management Styles

The Glass Ceiling, The Federal Glass Ceiling Commission

Gender Gap in the Executive Suite: CEOs and Female Executives Report on Breaking the Glass Ceiling

The Impact of Male Work Environments and Organizational Policies on Women's Experiences of Sexual Harrassment

Work and Family: Seeking a Balance

The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home

The Time Bind, Arlie Russell Hochschild

Fast-Track Women and the "Choice" to Stay Home

Family and Career Trajectories Among African American Female Attorneys

The Work-Home Crunch

Women Workers Across the Spectrum

Race, Class, Gender, and Women's Works: A Conceptual Framework

Negotiating Identity in Raced and Gendered Workplace Interactions: The Use of Strategic Communication by African American Women Senior Executives Within Dominant Cultural Organizations

Selling Women Short: A Research Note on Gender Differences in Compensation on Wall Street

Voces Abriendo Caminos (Voices Forging Paths): A Qualitative Study of the Career Development of Notable Latinas

Gender and the Formation of a Women's Profession: The Case of Public School Teaching

"Outsider Within" the Firehouse: Subordination and Difference in the Social Interactions of African American Women Firefighters

Police Force or Police Service: Gender and Emotional Labor

"Hey, Why Don't You Wear a Shorter Skirt?": Structural Vulnerability and the Organization of Sexual Harrassment in Temporary Clerical Employment

The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons

Chicanas Modernize Domestic Service

Policy and Assessment

Are We There Yet?: Reflections on Work and Family as an Emergent Social Issue

Kaleidoscope Careers: An Alternative Explanation for the "Opt-Out" Revolution

Job Leaves and the Limits of the Family and Medical Leave Act: The Effects of Gender, Race, and Family

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