Key issues in women's work : female heterogeneity and the polarisation of women's employment
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Key issues in women's work : female heterogeneity and the polarisation of women's employment
(Conflict and change in Britain series--a new audit, 4)
Athlone, 1996
- : hb
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [216]-240
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Description
This study provides an examination of women's employment in the UK. It considers such aspects as sex discrimination, patriarchy, part-time work, "flexible" hours, homeworking, marriage and career patterns, employment rights and the exploitation of part-timers, pay, and occupational segregation.
Table of Contents
- Explaining women's subordination
- marginal work and domestic work
- feminization of the workforce
- work orientations and work plans
- labour mobility and women's employment profiles
- occupational segregation and the pay gap
- social engineering - the role of law
- conclusions - female heterogeneity and workforce polarization.
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