Applying modern econometrics to 1989-1998 survey data collected in Taganrog, finds that gender segregation is quite common - contrary to the notorious claim that, since the existence of the Soviet Union, men and women enjoy equal rights and that manual workers are favoured over …
A book urging women to reconsider their relationship with anger, exploring how women are encouraged from childhood to sublimate it; how it mutates into other feelings and physical symptoms; and how if brought to light it is the sharpest weapon against female oppression. Soraya C…
In this book, Dorothy Sue Cobble retrieves the forgotten feminism of the previous generations of working women, illuminating the ideas that inspired them and the reforms they secured from employers and the state. This socially and ethnically diverse movement for change emerged f…
With a lively and engaging style, Zelda D'Aprano has written a history which will take its place as an important document of Australian culture. Kath, who emerges as a feisty and quietly determined woman, was the major force behind the struggle for equal pay for women.
Using two cross-national surveys (22 and 18 countries) for the period 1976-1994, examines the effect of female representation on employment and wage protection policy and social policy, on one hand, and on equal wage legislation, on the other.
