Product Description: This IPE Classic investigates the interrelations between women's participation in the urban wage economy and their productive and reproductive roles in the household and family. With a new Preface and Foreword, it argues that the household itself is an important determinant of the character and timing of women's labour force participation...read more

Product Description: Drawing on interviews with nurses, social workers, exotic dancers and hairdressers, this book explores the processes involved in producing and reproducing gendered and classed workers and occupations.

Product Description: This work of reference represents a remarkably complete, detailed and extensive review of the field of gender, work and organization in the second decade of the 21st century. Its authors represent eight countries and many disciplines including management, sociology, political science, and gender studies...read more

Product Description: First published in 1992, Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family is an analysis of the contemporary political interest in the position of women. The author critically assesses much of the literature examining the rapidly changing lives of women and contributes to it by offering an explanation of women's labour-market participation...read more

A hands-on guide to understanding and overcoming male reticence in the areas of housekeeping and child care defines specific problematic husband personalities, explaining how to overcome such challenges as male neediness, perfectionism, chauvinism, and workaholism.

Product Description: This book investigates the extent of gender inequality in the division of labour in the modern household. Through comparisons of the time allocations of single couple families without children, couple families with children and lone parents, a comprehensive account of the evolution of gender inequality over a typical lifecourse is presented...read more

Product Description: Información clave para los hombres para que comprendan mejor a las mujeres a fin de fortalecer su matrimonio. En sus más de treinta años de ministerio a la mujer, Emilie Barnes ha escuchado miles de historias de citas y matrimonio… algunas positivas, otras negativas...read more

Product Description: Gender is now recognized as a fundamental organizing principle for economic as well as social life, and related research has grown at an unprecedented pace in the recent decades across branches of economics. The volume takes stock of this research, proposes novel analytical frameworks and outlines further research directions...read more

Product Description: Mainstream economic analysis has traditionally overlooked gender. The individual―the basic category of analysis―was regarded as genderless. Neither gender discrimination nor segmentation and segregation within the labor market or within the household was present...read more

Product Description: From stay-at-home dads to the "mommy wars", Daddy On Board looks at just how far we have come from the late sixties and which parenting role issues still linger in the twenty-first century. Sharing personal insights and anecdotes from interviews with parents and professional counselors, Dottie Lamm, a mother and grandmother, offers a fascinating study of modern couples and the societal pressures the continue to face...read more

Furnishes a valuable guide for women who want to get ahead in the business world while working with men, offering a revealing analysis of male business attitudes and behavior, how they view women in business, how they communicate with each other, and more.

Product Description: This book brings together stories told by men and women. With a play on words sometimes used by feminists in the past, it could have been entitled "His/story and Her/story," in order to convey from the outset a banal, but sometimes overlooked, fact: the contents of stories depend on the voice telling them, and the experience recounted in first person differs according to the gender of the narrator...read more

Despite the massive influx of women into the labor force as a result of globalization, the gender inqualities at work have remained largely unchanged. This book addresses two related questions: What has prompted the feminization of manufacturing work in developing countries, and why has it failed to significantly erode gender inequalities at work? Teri L. Caraway offers case studies and in-depth analysis of employment changes in Indonesia combined with cross-national data to show that the feminization of the workplace produced by industrialization policies has reconfigured and reproduced, rather than overturned, gender divisions of labor at work. Caraway challenges the conventional wisdom that export-oriented industrialization and women's cheap labor are the driving forces behind feminization. Instead, she argues, the answers can be found in weak unions and current social practice. Caraway employs information about a wide range of industries―capital-intensive, male-dominated, non-export firms as well as female-dominated, labor-intensive, export-oriented industries―in arriving at her conclusions. Her findings will prove discouraging to anyone who hopes that globalization has become a positive force in improving the lives of women workers.Caraway's multilevel methodology for analyzing changes in gendered patterns of employment and her introduction of "gendered discourses of work" as a major explanatory variable will make Assembling Women a valuable resource for women's studies scholars, development economists, political scientists, and sociologists as well as all with an interest in Southeast Asian Studies and labor and industrial relations.

Product Description: This book presents a novel interpretation of the nature, causes and consequences of sex inequality in the modern labour market. Employing a sophisticated new theoretical framework, and drawing on original fieldwork, the book develops a subtle account of the phenomenon of sex segregation and offers a major challenge to existing approaches...read more

Product Description: It's common knowledge that responsibilities in the home are not divided equally between men and women. Most sociological studies of this phenomenon focus on why these gender differences are so persistent-persistent enough to have earned names like "the dual burden" and "the second shift...read more