Declining Significance of Gender?

Name: Declining Significance of Gender?
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ISBN: 9780871543707

ISBN-10: 0871543702

ISBN-13: 9780871543707

Edition: 2006

Authors: Francine D. Blau, Mary C. Brinton, David B. Grusky

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Description:

Looks at the economic, organizational, political, and cultural forces that have helped reduce gender inequality over the past fifty years, and asks whether they will continue to do so.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Publication date: 11/5/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 6.63" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188



Contributors


Preface and Acknowledgments



Introduction



The Declining Significance of Gender?




Making Sense of Change and Stability in Gender Inequality



The Gender Pay Gap: Going, Going ... But not Gone




The Rising (and Then Declining) Significance of Gender




How the Life-Cycle Human-Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed




How Much Progress in Closing the Long-Term Earnings Gap?




The Glass Ceiling in the United States and Sweden: Lessons from the Family-Friendly Corner of the World, 1970 to 1990




Possible Futures of Gender Inequality



Opposing Forces: How, Why, and When Will Gender Inequality Disappear?




Toward Gender Equality: Progress and Bottlenecks




Gender as an Organizing Force in Social Relations: Implications for the Future of Inequality



Index