Legalizing Gender Inequality - Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women in America

Zusammenfassung Legalizing Gender Inequality challenges existing theories of gender-based pay inequality. The book argues that earnings differentials cannot be explained adequately by market forces or society-wide sexism and that the court's reliance upon these theories has tended to legitimate and to legalize a crucial dimension of gender inequality. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Law, markets, and the institutional construction of gender inequality in pay; Part I. Theory and Method: 2. Legal theories of sex-based pay discrimination; 3. Toward an organizational theory of gender inequality in pay; 4. Methodological approach: law cases, case studies, and critical empiricism; Part II. The Case Studies. Section A. Public Sector Organizations: 5. Paternalism and politics in a university pay system: Christensen v. State of Iowa; 6. Bureaucratic politics and gender inequality in a state pay system: AFSCME v. State of Washington; Section B. Private Sector Organizations: 7. Corporate politics, rationalization, and managerial discretion: EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.; 8. The financial institution as a male, profit-making club: Glass v. Coastal Bank; Part III. Conclusion: Legalizing Gender Inequality: 9. Rethinking the relationship between law, markets, and gender inequality in organizations; Appendix: court documents and case materials used in case studies; References; Index.

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• Authors: William Bridges, William P. Bridges, Robert L. Nelson, Robert L. (American Bar Foundation Chicago Nelson, Robert L. Bridges Nelson
• Assisted by: Mark Granovetter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.1999
• EAN: 9780521627504
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62750-4
• No. of pages: 412
• Series: Structural Analysis in the Soc; Structural Analysis in the Soc
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories