Female Voices from the Worksite

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

• Gebundenes Buch

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9781793628749
• ISBN-10: 1793628742
• Artikelnr.: 60070708

Autorenporträt

Marquita Walker is interim chair and associate professor in the Department of Labor and Social Justice Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

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