Overview
- Debates the ongoing, key issue of gender inequality in employment, focusing on the role of occupations in promoting gender gaps.
- Provides an international and interdisciplinary perspective on income and employment inequality.
- Proposes policy solutions to gender inequality for the 21st century.
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This book re-shapes thinking on ‘gender gaps’—differences between men and women in their incomes, their employment and their conditions of work. It shows how the interaction between regulation distance and content, labor segmentation and norms helps us understand various aspects of gender gaps.
It brings together leading authors from industrial relations, sociology, politics, and feminist economics, who outline the roles the family, state public policy, trade unions and class play in creating gender gaps, and consider the lessons from international comparisons. While many studies have focused on the role of society or organizations, this book also pays attention to the role of occupations in promoting and reinforcing gender gaps, discussing groups such as apparel outworkers, film and video workers, care workers, public-sector professionals like librarians, chief executives, academics, and coal miners.
Thisbook will be of interest to practitioners, policy makers, academics and students interested in understanding why inequality between men and women persists today—and what might be done about it.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Concepts
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Occupations
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Conclusions
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Reviews
“This is an interesting and timely book, given the obligation in the UK for large organizations to publish their (admittedly skimpy) gender pay gap data, and the prevalence in the media of stories about women in the media and elsewhere being paid less than colleagues. … this book should be essential reading for those interested in their abolition.” (Harriet Bradley, Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 48 (2), April, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
David Peetz is Professor of Employment Relations at Griffith University, Nathan, Australia. He is the author of Unions in a Contrary World and Brave New Workplace, co-author of Women of the Coal Rushes and a co-researcher at the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work, Montreal.
Georgina Murray is Associate Professor at Griffith University, Nathan, Australia. She is the author of many articles and papers, as well as Capitalist Networks and Social Class in Australia and New Zealand, co-author of Women of the Coal Rushes, and co-editor of Financial Elites and Transnational Business: Who Rules the World?.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women, Labor Segmentation and Regulation
Book Subtitle: Varieties of Gender Gaps
Editors: David Peetz, Georgina Murray
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55495-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56122-0Published: 18 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55495-6Published: 17 April 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 271
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Work, Gender Studies