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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.
An Economic Profile of Women in the United States
An Economic Profile of Women in the United States
The changing demographic makeup of the United States is causing a growing awareness of cultural, ethnic, and racial diversity within the body politic. Before policy debates can be understood in historical, current, and future contexts, an assessment of the socioeconomic profiles of the differing racial and ethnic groups is required. This chapter investigates socioeconomic issues such as population and fertility statistics, educational attainment rates, occupational and wage status, and, finally, income and poverty distributions employing U.S. Census data for White American, African American, Asian American and Hispanic females. Consequently, this chapter reports on the current economic reality of females; it does not pursue an explanation of why such ...
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