A bold and unorthodox introduction to the debates surrounding race and gender at work that uses historical and numerical evidence to debunk myths about the causes and effects of discrimination at work.
A bold and unorthodox introduction to the debates surrounding race and gender at work that uses historical and numerical evidence to debunk myths about the causes and effects of discrimination at work.
Samuel Cohnis a Sociologist of race and gender at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Author of Occupational Sex-typing, winner of the American Sociological Association's Jessie Barnard Award in 1989 for Best Book on the Sociology of Gender. He is also the co-author (with Mark Fossett) of The Geography of Racial Exclusion.
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Has the Problem of Inequality Gone Away? Some Introductory Definitions Recent Trends in Inequality Racial Inequality Gender Inequality Occupational Typing Versus Status Segregation Conclusion Technical Appendix Notes Discrimination and Market Competition The Becker Model: Core Assumptions The Becker Model: Operation The Feminist Gary Becker: Heidi Hartmann Decision Theory: Why Organizations Don't Behave So Rationally After All The Link Between Decision Theory and Discrimination: Buffering from Competition Conclusion Notes What Determines If a Job Is Male or Female? The Myth That Women Exclude Themselves from Employment: Supply-Side Theories of Occupational Sex-Typing Demand -Side Theories of Occupational Sex-Typing: Some Preliminary Dead Ends Demand-Side Theories of Occupational Sex-Typing: Buffering Models Empirical Studies of Buffering and Sex-Typing Notes Why Are Women Confined to Low-Status Jobs? Human Capital Theory Problems with Human Capital Theory Synthetic Turnover Differential Visibility Models The Simplest Theory: Employee Discrimination Conclusion Notes Why Are Women Paid Less Than Men? The Overcrowding Hypothesis Human Capital Theory Comparable Worth Theory Production Constraint Theory Notes Why Are Blacks More Likely to Be Unemployed Than Are Whites? A Cartographic Analysis of Race and Employment Shiftlessness IQ and Human Capital Spatial Mismatch Employer Discrimination Notes Twenty-Six Things to Remember About Discrimination Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: A Socratic Guide to Race and Gender Discrimination at Work Appendix C: Problems for Deeper Thought References Index
Has the Problem of Inequality Gone Away? Some Introductory Definitions Recent Trends in Inequality Racial Inequality Gender Inequality Occupational Typing Versus Status Segregation Conclusion Technical Appendix Notes Discrimination and Market Competition The Becker Model: Core Assumptions The Becker Model: Operation The Feminist Gary Becker: Heidi Hartmann Decision Theory: Why Organizations Don't Behave So Rationally After All The Link Between Decision Theory and Discrimination: Buffering from Competition Conclusion Notes What Determines If a Job Is Male or Female? The Myth That Women Exclude Themselves from Employment: Supply-Side Theories of Occupational Sex-Typing Demand -Side Theories of Occupational Sex-Typing: Some Preliminary Dead Ends Demand-Side Theories of Occupational Sex-Typing: Buffering Models Empirical Studies of Buffering and Sex-Typing Notes Why Are Women Confined to Low-Status Jobs? Human Capital Theory Problems with Human Capital Theory Synthetic Turnover Differential Visibility Models The Simplest Theory: Employee Discrimination Conclusion Notes Why Are Women Paid Less Than Men? The Overcrowding Hypothesis Human Capital Theory Comparable Worth Theory Production Constraint Theory Notes Why Are Blacks More Likely to Be Unemployed Than Are Whites? A Cartographic Analysis of Race and Employment Shiftlessness IQ and Human Capital Spatial Mismatch Employer Discrimination Notes Twenty-Six Things to Remember About Discrimination Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: A Socratic Guide to Race and Gender Discrimination at Work Appendix C: Problems for Deeper Thought References Index
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