Selling Women Short - Gender and Money on Wall Street

Zusatztext "[T]his is a highly teachable book that could be assigned in economics, business, labor, and women's studies courses at either the undergraduate or graduate levels. . . . The combination of the academic study with the journalistic account should lead to a spirited discussion among students of the ways in which the structures of organizations allow people to realize opportunity or limit their success." ---Swan Yohn, Feminist Economics Informationen zum Autor Louise Marie Roth is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona. Klappentext "A fascinating (and depressing) account of what goes on on Wall Street. The personal histories and reports of experience are vivid and carry the story well."--Lotte Bailyn! Massachusetts Institute of Technology! author of "Breaking the Mold: Redesigning Work for Productive and Satisfying Lives" "This first-rate work is poised to join a small circle of influential books tackling the question of how gender inequality persists amid the avowedly merit-based segments of the American economy. Clearly presented and written in an engaging style! Selling Women Short is the only book I have seen that compares 'successful' and 'derailed' women and men! thus making it possible to disentangle the influence of gender from other! more 'gender neutral' factors that shape the career trajectories of workers in high-powered jobs."--Kathleen Gerson. New York University! coauthor of "The Time Divide: Work! Family! and Gender Inequality" Zusammenfassung Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. This work serves as an indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug.

Product details

• Authors: Louise Roth, Louise Marie Roth, Roth Louise Marie
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2006
• EAN: 9780691126432
• ISBN: 978-0-691-12643-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business, Gender studies, gender groups, Personnel & human resources management, Gender studies: women and girls, Personnel and human resources management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Harassment & Discrimination