Women and Men at Work

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SAGE Publications, Feb 14, 1994 - Social Science - 240 pages

In this comprehensive overview of a growing domain of research, Reskin and Padavic examine how gender has shaped the meaning and performance of work. Patterns of sex inequality and segregation as well as the gendered nature of contemporary workplace cultures are demonstrated. The authors provide an especially useful - and critical - summary of economic theories of gender differences in workplace rewards, such as earnings and authority, as well as an insightful discussion of the interpenetration of family and work life.

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... Sex and Gender / 2 Gendered Work / 6 Summary / 13 2 A History of Gendered Work / 15 The Sexual Division of Labor in ... Inequality at Work / 31 Sex Inequality in the Contemporary American Workplace / 31 Explanations for Sex ...
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... sex inequality . Sex Differentiation All societies recognize the existence of different sexes and group people by their sex for some purposes . Classifying people into categories based on their sex is called sex differentiation ...
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Barbara F. Reskin, Irene Padavic. 3 An Overview of Sex Inequality at Work This chapter summarizes women's and men's unequal status in the con- temporary ... Sex Inequality at Work/ Sex Inequality in the Contemporary American Workplace /

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Work and Gender
1
A History of Gendered Work
15
An Overview of Sex Inequality at Work
31
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About the author (1994)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleWomen and Men at Work
Volume 8 of Sociology for a New Century Series
AuthorsBarbara F. Reskin, Irene Padavic
Editionillustrated
PublisherSAGE Publications, 1994
ISBN0803990227, 9780803990227
Length240 pages
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