Female Voices from the Worksite

The Impact of Hidden Bias against Working Women across the Globe
Herausgeber: Walker, Marquita R.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection examines narratives expressed by women as they maneuver through social, cultural, economic, and political landmines during the search for gender equality in their respective work fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781793628749
• ISBN-10: 1793628742
• Artikelnr.: 60070708

Autorenporträt

Edited by Marquita R. Walker - Contributions by Asli Sahankaya Adar; Per Bauhn; Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy; Armand Chevalier; Gracia Clark; Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira; Saniye Dedeoglu; Lynn Duggan; Anil Duman; Lygia Sabbag Fares; Elizabeth Hoffmann; Anu

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Gender Wage Gap
Chapter 1: Precarious Employment Intersecting with Gender: Are Women
Punished More?
Chapter 2: Women Tea Workers of Munnar: Daily Negotiations with the
Restrictive Spaces
Chapter 3: Gender-based Disparities in the Medical Field: The Female
Physician Story
Chapter 4: Voicing the Invisible: Women's Home-based Work and Labor in
Istanbul's Garment Industry
Part II: The Use of Language to Devalue Women in the Workplace
Chapter 5: How Students Think about Women Professors: Enforcement of
Hegemonic Femininity in Students' End-of-Term Evaluations
Chapter 6: Career Impediments for Women in Turkish Engineering Academia
Part III: Institutional Structures which Reinforce Women's Secondary Status
Chapter 7: The Impact of the 2017 Labour Reform in Gender Issues in Brazil
Chapter 8: The Effect of Indirect Bias on Gender Equality in the Building
Trades
Chapter 9: Gendered agribuisness, feminization of work and the seeds of
empowerment: The case of women of Greenehouse
Chapter 10: Gender in Midwestern Building Trades: Tokenism and Beyond