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This book addresses many of the dimensions of gender inequality at work, looking at a number of important topics including: pay equity; the impact of feminization on certain professions; and barriers to women′s advancement in corporate hierarchies. These empirical studies include original surveys, secondary analyses of large data sets, historical studies, and ethnographic accounts. The importance of personal, family and structural factors in the gendering of the workplace are also considered.

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• Introduction
• Part 1 Gender and Compensation
• Sex Composition and Gendered Earnings Inequality
• A Comparison of Job and Occupational Models
• Gendered Instructions
• Cultural Lag and Gender Bias in the Hay System of Job Evaluation
• Further Evidence on Compensating Differentials and the Gender Gap in Wages
• Part 2 Women and Authority
• Jobs, Authority, and Earnings among Managers
• The Continuing Significance of Sex
• Women's Entry into Management
• Trends in Earnings, Authority, and Values among Salaried Managers
• Gender, Power, and Postindustrialism
• Part 3 Career Processes and Trends
• Cumulative versus Continuous Disadvantage in an Unstructured Labor Market
• Gender Differences in the Careers of Television Writers
• Occupational Sex Segregation and Women's Early Career Job Shifts
• Trends in Occupational and Industrial Sex Segregation in 56 Countries, 1960-1980
• Part 4 Perspectives on Occupational Resegregation
• Shifting Gender Boundaries
• Women's Inroads into Academic Sociology
• Male Flight from Computer Work
• A New Look at Occupational Resegregation and Ghettoization
• Gender and the Formation of a Women's Profession
• The Case of Public School Teaching
• Assessing Gender at Work
• Evidence and Issues

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CHOICE Review

This collection of articles on gender issues at work, written by academics from the field of sociology, is diverse, including studies on compensation, authority, career processes, and occupational segregation. Many insights on the measurement, status, and explanations of male/female inequality are provided. Each contribution presents a well-researched, -written, and -referenced study. The sociological approach is paramount. Material from economics, particularly the human capital approach, is often discussed and debated, and management literature is cited. Introductory and concluding chapters help tie the material together, but each study is independent. Several chapters address occupational/job segregation and resegregation. Specific studies on managers, television writers, sociology professors, and computer workers are included, as is a chapter on sex segregation internationally. The influence of social forces on outcomes is stressed. Evidence that the gender gap is closing is presented; however, the authors do not foresee equality soon. A good volume for researchers in the field. Graduate; faculty.