Women and the Economy : A Reader.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Section 1. Methodologies for Studying Women and the Economy -- 1. Rethinking Economics Through a Feminist Lens -- 2. Revisiting Class: Thinking from Gender, Race, and Organizations -- 3. Feminist Economics: From Theory to Research -- Appendix -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Exercise -- Further Reading -- Section 2. The Rise and Fall of Separate Spheres -- 4. Breadwinners and Other Workers: Gender and Race-Ethnicity in the Evolution of the Labor Force -- 5. Industrialization, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Modern Division of Labor by Sex -- 6. Men and Monotony: Fraternalism as a Managerial Strategy at the Ford Motor Company -- 7. Exploring the "Present Through the Past": Career and Family Across the Last Century -- 8. Marriage, Children, and Women's Employment: What Do We Know? -- Appendix -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Section 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: Is the Egalitarian Household Imminent? -- 12. The Household as a Focus for Research -- Appendix -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Section 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: A Test of the Becker Hypothesis -- 16. "That Single-Mother Element": How White Employers Typify Black Women -- Appendix -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Exercise -- Further Reading -- Section 5. Heterodox Approaches to Labor Market Outcomes.

17. The Political Economy of Labor Market Discrimination: A Classroom-Friendly Presentation of the Theory -- 18. Black Women's Breakthrough into Clerical Work: An Occupational Tipping Model -- 19. Gender as More Than a Dummy Variable: Feminist Approaches to Discrimination -- 20. Just Checking It Out: Exploring the Significance of Informal Gender Divisions Among American Supermarket Employees -- Appendix -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Exercise -- Further Reading -- Section 6. Policies Affecting Women, Work, and Families -- 21. Single, with Children: The Economic Plight of Single Mothers -- 22. The Minimum Wage Increase: A Working Woman's Issue -- 23. The Challenge of Comparable Worth: An Institutionalist View -- 24. Curing Child Poverty in the United States -- 25. Why Americans Need Family Leave Benefits and How They Can Get Them -- Appendix -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Section 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: Theoretical or Contextual Link? Toward an Institutional Analysis of Gender -- 29. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women -- Appendix -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Exercise -- Further Reading -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.

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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