Global Perspectives on Gender and Work

Readings and Interpretations

Jacqueline Goodman

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2000
• eBook ISBN: 9781461636809
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Contributions by: Amel Adib, Kevin Bales, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Sharon M. Collins, Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Susan Eisenberg, Ashley English, Yen Le Espiritu, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Nancy Folbre, Carla Freeman, Michele Ruth Gamburd, Jacqueline Goodman, Janet C. Gornick, Yvonne Guerrier, Luigi Guiso, Shannon Harper, Heidi Hartmann, Ariane Hegewisch, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Jacqueline Jones, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ivy Kennelly, Alice Kessler-Harris, Michael Kimmel, Eleanor Leacock, Judith Lorber, Susan E. Martin, Marcia K.Meyers, Ferdinando Monte, Martha C. Nussbaum, Jennifer Pierce, Pun Ngai, Barbara Reskin, Tracey Reynolds, Leslie Salzinger, Paola Sapienza, Joan W. Scott, Tyson Smith, Margaret Talbot, Louise A. Tilly, Christine L. Williams, Muhammad Yunus, and Luigi Zingales.
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Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: Origins of the Gendered Division of Labor
• Chapter 1: The Problem with Sex/Gender and Nature/Nurture
• Chapter 2: “Night to His Day”
• Chapter 3: Culture, Gender, and Math
• Chapter 4: Montagnais Women and the Jesuit Program for Colonization1
• Chapter 5: Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex
• Part II: Gender and Work in History
• Chapter 6: Women’s Work and the Family in Nineteenth-Century Europe
• Chapter 7: Housewifery
• Chapter 8: Black Women, Work, and the Family under Slavery
• Chapter 9: The Paradox of Motherhood
• Part III: Gender, Wages, and Inequality
• Chapter 10: Still a Man’s Labor Market: The Long-Term Earnings Gap
• Chapter 11: The Social Organization of Toy Stores
• Chapter 12: The Milk of Human Kindness
• Part IV: Gender, Management, and the Professions
• Chapter 13: The Impact of Hierarchical Structures on the Work Behavior of Women and Men
• Chapter 14: Women and Men as Litigators
• Chapter 15: The Glass Escalator
• Chapter 16: Black Mobility in White Corporations
• Chapter 17: Gender and Labor in Asian Immigrant Families
• Part V: Gender and Low-Waged Work
• Chapter 18: The Interlocking of Gender with Nationality, Race, Ethnicity and Class
• Chapter 19: “Outsider Within” the Station House
• Chapter 20: When Feminism Had Class
• Chapter 21: Myths of Docile Girls and Matriarchs
• Part VI: Gender and the Global Division of Labor
• Chapter 22: New World Domestic Order
• Chapter 23: Trope Chasing
• Chapter 24: Imagining Sex and Gender in the Workplace
• Chapter 25: Breadwinners No More
• Chapter 26: Thailand: Because She Looks Like a Child
• Part VII: Gendered Discrimination at Work
• Chapter 27: Unconsciousness Raising
• Chapter 28: The Hidden Discourse of Masculinity in Gender Discrimination Law
• Chapter 29: “That Single-Mother Element”
• Chapter 30: Marking Gender Boundaries: Porn, Piss, Power Tools
• Chapter 31: Men Behaving Badly
• Part VIII: Family, Gender, and Work
• Chapter 32: The Administrative Mother
• Chapter 33: Black Mothering, Paid Work and Identity
• Chapter 34: Families on the Frontier
• Chapter 35: More Alike than Different
• Part IX: A Sample of Policy Alternatives
• Chapter 36: The Stool Makers of Jobra Village
• Chapter 37: Women’s Education: A Global Challenge
• Chapter 38: Affirmative Action at School and on the Job
• Chapter 39: Support for Working Families
• References
• Credits
• About the Editor
• About the Book