Key Issues in Women's Work: Female

Covers sex discrimination, patriarchy, part-time work, 'flexible' hours, homeworking, marriage and career patterns, employment rights and the exploitation of part-timers, occupational segregation and the pay gap.

Series Editors' Preface

x

List of figures

xii

List of tables

xiii

List of cases

xv

Acknowledgements

xvi

Abbreviations

xviii

Explaining women's subordination

1

(18)

Key issues in women's employment

2

(1)

Theoretical perspectives

3

(2)

Patriarchy and male dominance: Goldberg

5

(4)

Patriarchy, male organisation and job segregation: Hartmann

9

(4)

Rational choices within families: Becker

13

(3)

Britain as a case study

16

(3)

Marginal work and domestic work

19

(41)

Work and employment: the conceptual framework

21

(5)

Marginal market work in Britain

26

(6)

Family workers

32

(4)

Home-based work

36

(2)

The informal economy

38

(2)

Seasonal and temporary work

40

(1)

Non-standard employment

41

(3)

Voluntary work

44

(2)

Domestic work

46

(5)

Reproductive and caring work

51

(2)

Status of the housewife and househusband

53

(5)

Conclusions

58

(2)

Feminisation of the workforce

60

(23)

The rise of part-time jobs

60

(5)

Part-time workers and secondary earners

65

(9)

The demasculinisation of work

74

(5)

Conclusions

79

(4)

Work orientations and work plans

83

(37)

Attitudes to the sexual division of labour

84

(7)

The modern sexual division of labour

91

(7)

Work orientations

98

(5)

Work commitment

103

(6)

Work plans

109

(4)

Male dominance and other work-related attitudes

113

(5)

Conclusions

118

(2)

Labour mobility and women's employment profiles

120

(25)

Changing perspectives

120

(3)

The sources of change

123

(4)

The impact of childbirth on employment

127

(2)

Sample selection bias

129

(1)

Movement in and out of the labour force

130

(2)

Continuity of employment over the lifecycle: three employment profiles

132

(7)

The implications of intermittent employment

139

(3)

Conclusions

142

(3)

Occupational segregation and the pay gap

145

(42)

Job segregation and labour market segmentation

145

(4)

Vertical job segregation and the pay gap

149

(3)

Recent trends in occupational segregation

152

(10)

Masculine and feminine work cultures

162

(4)

A segregated part-time workforce

166

(4)

Long term trends 1891-1991

170

(4)

The sex differential in earnings

174

(3)

Explanations for the pay gap

177

(8)

Conclusions

185

(2)

Social engineering: the role of law

187

(15)

European and national law

189

(4)

Social science evidence on indirect discrimination

193

(5)

The problem of female heterogeneity

198

(2)

Conclusions

200

(2)

Conclusions: female heterogeneity and workforce polarisation

202

(14)

True lies

203

(2)

Sex and gender

205

(1)

Female heterogeneity

206

(1)

Polarisation within the workforce

207

(2)

Sex differentials

209

(1)

Explaining women's subordination

210

(3)

Looking ahead

213

(3)

Bibliography

216

(25)

Subject Index

241

(10)

Author Index

251

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