Gender Segregation at Work

• Author(s): Sylvia Walby,
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Pages: 190
• ISBN_10: 0335155634
  ISBN_13: 9780335155637
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Labor / Wages & Compensation , Business & Economics / Workplace Harassment & Discrimination , Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations ,

Description:... SUMMARY:Explores explanations of gender segregation at work, the changing forms and levels of segregation, and deliberate attempts to reduce it. Provides the general theoretical and historical background, a number of specific case studies, and a discussion of such issues as part-time work, the role of trade unions, sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and racism in relation to gender segregation.