Global Perspectives on Gender and Work Readings and Interpretations

by Goodman, Jacqueline

• ISBN13: 9780742556140
• ISBN10: 074255614X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Central to all our lives, work affects our status in the state, the family, and the economy. This comprehensive reader examines the myriad ways in which work_whether it is well-paid, unpaid, or underpaid_profoundly influences our roles in both the public and private spheres. Jacqueline Goodman has selected a key set of essays that examine influential arguments on such central themes as (1) the origins of the gendered division of labor; (2) historical trends and economic transformations that affect and are affected by women's position in market and non-market work; (3) the effects of occupational and job segregation by sex on status, pay, and promotion; (4) the ways in which formal and informal organizational culture shape and in turn are shaped by gender in professional and managerial positions; (5) class consciousness among wage-earning men and women; (6) the different forms of gender discrimination that women and men face in the workplace; (7) the problems working parents face and the ways in which different societies, subcultures and genders cope; and (8) alternative approaches to improving the lives of working women and their families in the global economy. With its rich interdisciplinary perspective, this text is ideal for courses in sociology, political science, anthropology, and women's and gender studies.

Author Biography

Jacqueline Goodman is professor of sociology and director of women's and gender studies at the State University of New York, Potsdam College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Origins of the Gendered Division of Labor	p. 1
The Problem with Sex/Gender and Nature/Nurture	p. 7
"Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender	p. 15
Culture, Gender, and Math	p. 33
Montagnais Women and the Jesuit Program for Colonization	p. 39
Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex	p. 54
Gender and Work in History	p. 67
Women's Work and the Family in Nineteenth-Century-Europe	p. 71
Housewifery: Household Work and Household Tools under Pre-Industrial Conditions	p. 84
Black Women, Work, and the Family under Slavery	p. 92
The Paradox of Motherhood: Night Work Restrictions in the United States	p. 106
Gender, Wages, and Inequality	p. 121
Still A Man's Labor Market: The Long-Term Earnings Gap	p. 125
The Social Organization of Toy Stores	p. 136
The Milk of Human Kindness	p. 147
Gender, Management, and the Professions	p. 159
The Impact of Hierarchical Structures on the Work Behavior of Women and Men	p. 163
Women and Men as Litigators: Gender Differences on the Job	p. 177
The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the "Female" Professions	p. 195
Black Mobility in White Corporations: Up the Corporate Ladder but Out on a Limb	p. 212
Gender and Labor in Asian Immigrant Families	p. 226
Gender and Low-Waged Work	p. 241
The Interlocking of Gender with Nationality, Race, Ethnicity and Class: The Narratives of Women in Hotel Work	p. 245
"Outsider Within" the Station House: The Impact of Race and Gender on Black Women Police	p. 260
When Feminism Had Class	p. 278
Myths of Docile Girls and Matriarchs: Local Profiles of Global Workers	p. 289
Gender and the Global Division of Labor	p. 305
New World Domestic Order	p. 311
Trope Chasing: Making a Local Labor Market	p. 325
Imagining Sex and Gender in the Workplace	p. 339
Breadwinners No More: Masculinity in Fliix	p. 355
Thailand: Because She Looks Like a Child	p. 367
Gendered Discrimination at Work	p. 379
Unconsciousness, Raising	p. 385
The Hidden Discourse of Masculinity in Gender Discrimination Law	p. 391
"That Single Mother Element": How White Employers Typify Black Women	p. 404
Marking Gender Boundaries: Porn, Piss, Power Tools	p. 417
Men Behaving Badly	p. 432
Family, Gender, and Work	p. 445
The Administrative Mother	p. 451
Black Mothering, Paid Work and Identity	p. 459
Families on the Frontier: From Braceros in the Fields to Braceras in the Home	p. 471
More Alike than Different: Revisiting the Long-Term Prospects for Developing "European-Style" Work/Family Policies in the United States	p. 480
A Sample of Policy Alternatives	p. 493
The Stool Makers of Jobra Village	p. 499
Women's Education: A Global Challenge	p. 508
Affirmative Action at School and on the Job	p. 518
Support for Working Families	p. 531
References	p. 539
Credits	p. 585
Index	p. 589
About the Editor	p. 605
About the Book	p. 606
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