Workplace/Women's Place

by Dubeck, Paula J.; Dunn, Dana

• ISBN13: 9781931719698
• ISBN10: 1931719691
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Roxbury Pub Co

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	viii
Introduction to the Study of Women and Work	1	(14)
Paula Dubeck
Dana Dunn
Unit One: Becoming Workers: Girls' Socialization for Employment
Introduction	15	(3)
Parental Influence and Women's Careers	18	(10)
Sue Joan Mendelson Freeman
Shortchanging Girls: Gender Socialization in Schools	28	(9)
Peggy Orenstein
Gender and the Career Choice Process: The Role of Biased Self-Assessment	37	(22)
Shelly J. Correll
Unit Two: Workplace Inequality: Gendered Structures and Their Consequences
Introduction	53	(6)
Women's Employment Among Blacks, Whites, and Three Groups of Latinas: Do More Privileged Women Have Higher Employment?	59	(10)
Paula England
Carmen Garcia-Beaulieu
Mary Ross
Gendered Jobs and Gendered Workers	69	(4)
Christine L. Williams
Sex Segregation in the Workplace	73	(4)
Barbara F. Reskin
The Penny Pinch	77	(6)
Christine Larson
Women, Men, and Management Styles	83	(5)
Marie-Therese Claes
The Glass Ceiling	88	(7)
Gender Gap in the Executive Suite: CEOs and Female Executives Report on Breaking the Glass Ceiling	95	(15)
Belle Rose Ragins
Bickley Townsend
Mary Mattis
The Impact of Male Work Environments and Organizational Policies on Women's Experiences of Sexual Harassment	110	(13)
James E. Gruber
Unit Three: Work and Family: Seeking a Balance
Introduction	119	(4)
The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home	123	(11)
Arlie Russell Hochschild with
Anne Machung
The Time Bind	134	(8)
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Fast-Track Women and the `Choice' to Stay Home	142	(15)
Pamela Stone
Meg Lovejoy
Family and Career Trajectories Among African American Female Attorneys	157	(11)
Mary Blair-Loy
Gretchen DeHart
The Work-Home Crunch	168	(16)
Kathleen Gerson
Jerry A. Jacobs
Unit Four: Women Workers Across the Spectrum
Introduction	177	(7)
Race, Class, Gender, and Women's Works: A Conceptual Framework	184	(10)
Teresa L. Amott
Julie A. Matthaei
Negotiating Identity in Raced and Gendered Workplace Interactions: The Use of Strategic Communication by African American Women Senior Executives Within Dominant Culture Organizations	194	(13)
Patricia S. Parker
Selling Women Short: A Research Note on Gender Differences in Compensation on Wall Street	207	(9)
Louise Marie Roth
Voces Abriendo Caminos (Voices Forging Paths): A Qualitative Study of the Career Development of Notable Latinas	216	(17)
Maria J. Gomez
Ruth E. Fassinger
Joann Prosser
Kathleen Cooke
Brenda Mejia
Jeanette Luna
Gender and the Formation of a Women's Profession: The Case Of Public School Teaching	233	(18)
Jo Anne Preston
`Outsider Within' the Firehouse: Subordination and Difference in the Social Interactions of African American Women Firefighters	251	(13)
Janice D. Yoder
Patricia Aniakudo
Police Force or Police Service: Gender and Emotional Labor	264	(8)
Susan Ehrlich Martin
`Hey, Why Don't You Wear a Shorter Skirt?': Structural Vulnerability and the Organization of Sexual Harassment in Temporary Clerical Employment	272	(12)
Jackie Krasas Rogers
Kevin D. Henson
The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons	284	(14)
Miliann Kang
Chicanas Modernize Domestic Service	298	(14)
Mary Romero
Unit Five: Policy and Assessment
Introduction	309	(3)
Are We There Yet?: Reflections on Work and Family as an Emergent Social Issue	312	(12)
Paula J. Dubeck
Kaleidoscope Careers: An Alternative Explanation for the `Opt-Out' Revolution	324	(16)
Lisa A. Mainiero
Sherry E. Sullivan
Job Leaves and the Limits of the Family and Medical Leave Act: The Effects of Gender, Race, and Family	340	(11)
Naomi Gerstel
Katherine McGonagle
Blessing or Curse? Work-Family Policies and Mothers' Wage Growth Over Time	351	(19)
Jennifer Glass
Appendix I
2004 Salary Survey from NAFE	365	(2)
Appendix II
Data and Information on Women's Labor Force Participation	367	(2)
Charts on Earnings for Full-time Wage and Salary Workers	369	(1)
The Wage Gap	370	(1)
Mothers in the Labor Force	370