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| Tables and Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Methodologies for Studying Women and the Economy | |
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| Rethinking Economics Through a Feminist Lens | |
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| Revisiting Class: Thinking from Gender, Race, and Organizations | |
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| Feminist Economics: From Theory to Research | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Exercise | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Separate Spheres | |
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| Breadwinners and Other Workers: Gender and Race-Ethnicity in the Evolution of the Labor Force | |
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| Industrialization, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Modern Division of Labor by Sex | |
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| Men and Monotony: Fraternalism as a Managerial Strategy at the Ford Motor Company | |
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| Exploring the "Present Through the Past": Career and Family Across the Last Century | |
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| Marriage, Children, and Women's Employment: What Do We Know? | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Households and Social Reproduction | |
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| The Economic Risks of Being a Housewife | |
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| For Love or Money-Or Both? | |
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| Student Attitudes Toward Roles of Women and Men: Is the Egalitarian Household Imminent? | |
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| The Household as a Focus for Research | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Mainstream Approaches to Labor Market Outcomes | |
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| The Earnings Gap and Family Choices | |
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| Race and Gender Wage Gaps in the Market for Recent College Graduates | |
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| Motor Bus Deregulation and the Gender Wage Gap: A Test of the Becker Hypothesis | |
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| "That Single-Mother Element": How White Employers Typify Black Women | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Heterodox Approaches to Labor Market Outcomes | |
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| The Political Economy of Labor Market Discrimination: A Classroom-Friendly Presentation of the Theory | |
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| Black Women's Breakthrough into Clerical Work: An Occupational Tipping Model | |
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| Gender as More Than a Dummy Variable: Feminist Approaches to Discrimination | |
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| Just Checking It Out: Exploring the Significance of Informal Gender Divisions Among American Supermarket Employees | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Policies Affecting Women, Work, and Families | |
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| Single, with Children: The Economic Plight of Single Mothers | |
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| The Minimum Wage Increase: A Working Woman's Issue | |
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| The Challenge of Comparable Worth: An Institutionalist View | |
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| Curing Child Poverty in the United States | |
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| Why Americans Need Family Leave Benefits and How They Can Get Them | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Gendered Impact of Economic Development and Globalization | |
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| Gender and International Labor Standards in the World Economy | |
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| Globalization, Gender and the Davos Man | |
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| Development, Gender, and the Environment: Theoretical or Contextual Link? Toward an Institutional Analysis of Gender | |
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| Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| About the Editors and Contributors | |
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| Index | |