Robert L. Nelson, William Bridges

Legalizing Gender Inequality

Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women in America
Herausgeber: Granovetter, Mark

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780521627504
• ISBN-10: 0521627508
• Artikelnr.: 21187932

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Law, markets, and the
institutional construction of gender inequality in pay; Part I. Theory and
Method: 2. Legal theories of sex-based pay discrimination; 3. Toward an
organizational theory of gender inequality in pay; 4. Methodological
approach: law cases, case studies, and critical empiricism; Part II. The
Case Studies. Section A. Public Sector Organizations: 5. Paternalism and
politics in a university pay system: Christensen v. State of Iowa; 6.
Bureaucratic politics and gender inequality in a state pay system: AFSCME
v. State of Washington; Section B. Private Sector Organizations: 7.
Corporate politics, rationalization, and managerial discretion: EEOC v.
Sears, Roebuck & Co.; 8. The financial institution as a male, profit-making
club: Glass v. Coastal Bank; Part III. Conclusion: Legalizing Gender
Inequality: 9. Rethinking the relationship between law, markets, and gender
inequality in organizations; Appendix: court documents and case materials
used in case studies; References; Index.