Ellen Mutari, Deborah M. Figart

Women and the Economy: A Reader (eBook, ePUB)

A Reader

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This reader is designed for use as a primary or supplementary text for courses on women's role in the economy. Both interdisciplinary and heterodox in its approach, it showcases feminist economic analyses that utilize insights from institutionalism as well as neoclassical economics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317451877
• Artikelnr.: 42554282

Autorenporträt

Ellen Mutari, Deborah M. Figart

Inhaltsangabe

1: Methodologies for Studying Women and the Economy
1: Rethinking Economics Through a Feminist Lens
2: Revisiting Class
3: Feminist Economics
2: The Rise and Fall of Separate Spheres
4: Breadwinners and Other Workers
5: Industrialization, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Modern Division of Labor by Sex
6: Men and Monotony
7: Exploring "Present Through the Past"
8: Marriage, Children, and Women's Employment
3: Households and Social Reproduction
9: The Economic Risks of Being a Housewife
10: For Love or Money-Or Both?
11: Student Attitudes Toward Roles of Women and Men
12: The Household as a Focus for Research
4: Mainstream Approaches to Labor Market Outcomes
13: The Earnings Gap and Family Choices
14: Race and Gender Wage Gaps in the Market for Recent College Graduates
15: Motor Bus Deregulation and the Gender Wage Gap
16: "That Single-Mother Element"
5: Heterodox Approaches to Labor Market Outcomes
17: The Political Economy of Labor Market Discrimination
18: Black Women's Breakthrough into Clerical Work
19: Gender as More Than a Dummy Variable
20: Just Checking It Out
6: Policies Affecting Women, Work, and Families
21: Single, with Children
22: The Minimum Wage Increase
23: The Challenge of Comparable Worth
24: Curing Child Poverty in the United States
25: Why Americans Need Family Leave Benefits and How They Can Get Them
7: The Gendered Impact of Economic Development and Globalization
26: Gender and International Labor Standards in the World Economy
27: Globalization, Gender, and the Davos Man
28: Development, Gender, and the Environment
29: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women