TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobsen,Joyce P.
TI  - The economics of gender
SN  - 9781405161824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - HQ 1381 .J33 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Malden
PB  - Blackwell
KW  - Women
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Sex role in the work environment
KW  - Sex discrimination
N1  - Introduction -- Gender differences in the U.S. economy -- The household as economic unit -- Labor force participation : analysis of trends -- Labor force participation : consequences for family structure -- Gender segregation in the workplace -- Causes of earnings differences: human capital -- Causes of earnings differences : compensating differentials -- Causes of earnings differences : discrimination -- Industrialized capitalist societies -- Socialist and cooperative societies -- Nonindustrialized traditional societies -- Effects of the development process on gender differences -- Gender differences in U.S. economic history -- Race, ethnicity, and class considerations in interpreting gender differences -- Policy proposals; Includes references and index
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UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/2007000192-d.html
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