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

Catherine Hakim

(Conflict and change in Britain series--a new audit, 4)

Athlone, 1996

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  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [216]-240

Includes indexes

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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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