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This collection of original research articles explores how race, ethnicity, and social class have shaped the work lives of women. Women and Work explores womenÆs working conditions, their wages and salaries, their abilities to control their work environments, and how they see themselves and their options in the workplace. A great deal of importance is given to women of color, non-citizens, and working-class womenùgroups that are often neglected in other treatments of this subject. The integration of work and family, womenÆs vision of their own work and consciousness as employees, and womenÆs resistance to exploitative and limiting work are themes are also addressed throughout this book. Written by and interdisciplinary group of women scholars, Women and Work will be of interest to faculty, researchers, and advanced students in the fields of sociology, organization studies, psychology, gender studies, womenÆs history, and economics.
Health Care, Professions, Managerial Positions, and Entrepreneurship
The chapters in this section capture some of the varied work settings of women in health care, the professions, managerial positions, and entrepreneurial ventures and introduce the circumstances of some middle-class women. Increasingly, women are moving into professional and managerial occupations, augmenting their numbers in entrepreneurship, and even defining new work settings in line with feminist values. The meanings for women's lives behind these impressive statistics can be examined only through empirical research. The three chapters that follow address some specific questions that provide insights into central advances in women's positions. They also teach us that social class, race, and ethnicity are key in differentiating how women experience these advances.
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