Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce

Informationen zum Autor Susan Bisom-Rapp is Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, California. She is a member of the American Law Institute and has published widely on employee rights and discrimination in employment. Malcolm Sargeant is Professor of Labour Law at Middlesex University. He has researched and written widely on employment and discrimination law issues. Klappentext Critically examines discrimination and disadvantage suffered by women at work and focuses on the inadequacies of the current law. Zusammenfassung This book fills a gap in the literature on discrimination and disadvantage suffered by women at work by focusing on the inadequacies of the current law and recommending a new holistic approach. It is an important addition to any research collection on the issues of gender! employment! equality and secure retirement. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Lifetime disadvantage; 2. Education and training; 3. Stereotyping and gender discrimination; 4. Caregiving and career outcomes; 5. Glass ceilings and pay inequality; 6. Occupational segregation and non-standard working; 7. Pensions and retirement; 8. Beyond lifetime disadvantage.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Bisom-Rapp, Susan Sargeant Bisom-Rapp, Bisom-Rapp Susan, Malcolm Sargeant, Malcolm Bisom-Rapp Sargeant, Sargeant Malcolm
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781107123533
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12353-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LAW / Labor & Employment, LAW / Discrimination, LAW / Gender & the Law, Social discrimination & inequality, Gender & the law, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Law and society, gender issues, Social discrimination and social justice, Discrimination in employment and harassment law, Discrimination in employment law