Working Women in America: Split Dreams - Hardcover
Working Women in America: Split Dreams studies the dynamic growth in women's labor force participation with an eye to understanding what the actual experience of working women is today. The book offers a broad perspective on the diversity of women and their work, and it raises the need to
rethink ideas concerning work, family and gender roles in order to help solve women's work and family lie dilemmas. It utilizes a structural approach to rethink these ideas and resolve these dilemmas. The book's central argument is that to understand the position of women in the work world, one must
analyze women's situation in the economy, the family, education, and the polity -- in short, within society as large -- because these various social institutions connect, reflect and influence one another. The authors begin with an historical perspective on women at work which recognizes the
importance of the economic and legal dimensions of women's work lives. This broad perspective lays the groundwork to a further examination of the particular work situations of women and a recognition of the fact that diversity of women's work experiences are formed by racial, class, and other
inequalities (sexual, age, etc.).
rethink ideas concerning work, family and gender roles in order to help solve women's work and family lie dilemmas. It utilizes a structural approach to rethink these ideas and resolve these dilemmas. The book's central argument is that to understand the position of women in the work world, one must
analyze women's situation in the economy, the family, education, and the polity -- in short, within society as large -- because these various social institutions connect, reflect and influence one another. The authors begin with an historical perspective on women at work which recognizes the
importance of the economic and legal dimensions of women's work lives. This broad perspective lays the groundwork to a further examination of the particular work situations of women and a recognition of the fact that diversity of women's work experiences are formed by racial, class, and other
inequalities (sexual, age, etc.).
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About the Author:
Sharlene Hesse-Biber is at Boston College. Gregg Carter is at Bryant College.
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"This book packs a lot of material in a relatively short amount of pages. The first-person narratives make for authenticity, and there is much to discuss. I shall consider it when next I teach my course." --Robert Langran, Villanova University
"Comprehensive and easy to read, with both narrative form and quantitative data to support the information presented."--N. Lebon, Randolph-Macon College
"Comprehensive and easy to read, with both narrative form and quantitative data to support the information presented."--N. Lebon, Randolph-Macon College
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0195110242
- ISBN 13 9780195110241
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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Working Women in America : Split Dreams
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