Robert L. Nelson

Legalizing Gender Inequality (eBook, PDF)

Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women in America

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Legalizing Gender Inequality challenges existing theories of gender inequality within economic, sociological, and legal organizations. The book argues that male-female earnings differentials cannot be explained adequately by market forces, principles of efficiency, or society-wide sexism. Rather it suggests that employing organizations tend to disadvantage holders of predominantly female jobs by denying them power in organizational politics and by reproducing male cultural advantages. These findings contradict major legal precedents which have argued that labor markets and not employers are the source of inequality. The authors further argue that comparable worth is an inappropriate remedy, as such an approach misdiagnoses the causes of gender inequality and often falls prey to the same organizational processes that initially generated this differential. The book argues that the courts have, by uncritically accepting the market explanation for male-female wage disparity, tended to legitimate and to legalize a crucial dimension of gender inequality in American society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511035173
• Artikelnr.: 38202667

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.