Women and Work

In this book, first published in 1975, the author examines the role of women in the workforce. Despite representing a rapidly increasing section of the workforce, why are women still overwhelmingly confined to unskilled jobs? Why do they hold such a tiny proportion of managerial and professional posts? In answering these vital questions Ross Davies shows how women's economic roles in pre-industrial society were modified and distorted by industrialisation; how this legacy of exploitation has affected contemporary attitudes among both men and women; and how the present situation should be seen and assessed in its proper perspective.

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Ross Davies

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In this book, first published in 1975, the author examines the role of women in the workforce. Despite representing a rapidly increasing section of the workforce, why are women still overwhelmingly confined to unskilled jobs? Why do they hold such a tiny proportion of managerial and professional posts? In answering these vital questions Ross Davies shows how women’s economic roles in pre-industrial society were modified and distorted by industrialisation; how this legacy of exploitation has affected contemporary attitudes among both men and women; and how the present situation should be seen and assessed in its proper perspective.

Product details

• Authors: Davies, Ross Davies
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.09.2018
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781138280472
• ISBN: 978-1-138-28047-2
• Pages: 194
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women and Business; Routledge Library Editions: Women and Business
• Subjects: Business & Economics / General, Economics, Business and Management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Business & management, occupational segregation, Trade Unions, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, industrialisation impact, professional barriers women, gender labour market, trade union exclusion, historical analysis women's employment, legal equality workplace