Women and Equality in the Workplace - A Reference Handbook

An expert guide to women''s quest for fairness in the workplace, marking the great legal and social advances as well as continuing inequalities. Women and Equality in the Workplace: A Reference Handbook is an expert overview of the issues of gender equity in the workplace as they have evolved from World War II to the present. Focusing primarily on the United States, while drawing broad contrasts with nations around the world, the book describes the practical impact of laws and social policies developed to combat the many forms of sex discrimination, as well as the legal remedies of equal pay law, affirmative action, and comparable worth. Women and Equality in the Workplace also reviews current sociological and economic theories as to why, despite the notable progress, men continue to have better pay and benefits, higher status, and more opportunities, while working women are still all too often harassed, stigmatized, and overlooked.

About the author

Janet Zollinger Giele, Leslie Stebbins

Product details

• Authors: Janet Giele, Janet Zollinger Giele, Giele Janet Zollinger, Leslie Stebbins
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2003
• EAN: 9781576079379
• ISBN: 978-1-57607-937-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Contemporary World Issues
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Office Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business, Labour / income economics, Office & workplace, Gender studies: women, Office and workplace, Gender studies: women and girls, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Employment & Unemployment