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The Female-Male Earnings Gap: a Review of Employment and Earnings Issues
Reviews earnings gap between men and women in the work force. Reports statistical analysis based on gender, industry, and year.
Tags: comparable worth, employment, industry
The Earnings Gap between Women and Men
Contents
Introduction
Occupation
Educational Attainment
Work Experience
Overtime Work
Earnings Differentials
Age
Race
Marital Status
Regions
Introduction
Occupation
Educational Attainment
Work Experience
Overtime Work
Earnings Differentials
Age
Race
Marital Status
Regions
Tags: employment, industry, occupation, wage
Winds: June 1984 - A Century of Japanese Women Speaking For Themselves
Contents
Daughters of the Sun Goddess
Speaking for Themselves
- Waka Ohno
- Ritsu Takebe
- Shidzue Ishimoto Kato
- Toki Urano
- Rinko Yamazaki
- Sesoko Tsune
- Tomoe Ashida
- Junko Tabei
- Takiko Kato
- Yukiko Abe
- Yurika…
Daughters of the Sun Goddess
Speaking for Themselves
- Waka Ohno
- Ritsu Takebe
- Shidzue Ishimoto Kato
- Toki Urano
- Rinko Yamazaki
- Sesoko Tsune
- Tomoe Ashida
- Junko Tabei
- Takiko Kato
- Yukiko Abe
- Yurika…
Strategies Against Sweating: Experiences of organising against the casualisation of women's work in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe and the United States
Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Background
Section 1 - Women's Casualised Work and the Sweating System in Britain
Section 2 - The Causes of 'Sweating'
Section 3 - Sweating in France and the U.S.
Part II: Strategies
Section 1 -…
Introduction
Part I: The Background
Section 1 - Women's Casualised Work and the Sweating System in Britain
Section 2 - The Causes of 'Sweating'
Section 3 - Sweating in France and the U.S.
Part II: Strategies
Section 1 -…
Science and Technology Working Papers Series, No. 10: The Impact of Science and Technology and the Role of Women in Science in Mexico
Contents
Preface
An overview
Conclusions and policy considerations
Methodological note
Part I
Women in science in Mexico
Part II
The impact of industrial technologies on women in Mexico
Section A
The impact of…
Preface
An overview
Conclusions and policy considerations
Methodological note
Part I
Women in science in Mexico
Part II
The impact of industrial technologies on women in Mexico
Section A
The impact of…
Tags: data, industry, Mexico, science, technology
"To Get Out of This Land of Sufring": Black Migrant Women, Work and the Family in Northern Cities, 1900-1930
[Working Paper No. 91]
Table of Contents
Introduction
Paths North
Work and Family Life
- Paid Labor
- Household Responsibilities
- Community Welfare Activities
The Northern Synthesis: Old and New Ways in the Ghetto
Notes
Introduction
Paths North
Work and Family Life
- Paid Labor
- Household Responsibilities
- Community Welfare Activities
The Northern Synthesis: Old and New Ways in the Ghetto
Notes
Tags: African American, agriculture, children, community, discrimination, equality, family, industry, labor, population, urban, work
Between Plantation and Ghetto: Black Women, Work, and the Family in the Urban South, 1880-1915
[Working Paper No. 79]
Contents
I. Physical And Human Dimensions of the Urban Household
II. "Too Proud to Bend: Too Poor to Break": Domestic Servants
III. Escapes From Domestic Service
IV. The Role of Black Women in Southern Labor and Race Relations,…
I. Physical And Human Dimensions of the Urban Household
II. "Too Proud to Bend: Too Poor to Break": Domestic Servants
III. Escapes From Domestic Service
IV. The Role of Black Women in Southern Labor and Race Relations,…
Tags: African American, agriculture, children, class, family, industry, labor, marriage, policy, politics, race, sexual harassment, slavery, urban, work
Labor Heroines: Ten Women Who Led the Struggle
Contents
Sarah Bagley, leader of cotton mill workers in their fight for a 10-hour day
Augusta Lewis, organizer of Women's Typographical Local No. 1
Kate Mullaney, builder of a union of collar laundry workers
Leonora Barry, hosiery…
Sarah Bagley, leader of cotton mill workers in their fight for a 10-hour day
Augusta Lewis, organizer of Women's Typographical Local No. 1
Kate Mullaney, builder of a union of collar laundry workers
Leonora Barry, hosiery…
Separated and Unequal: Discrimination Against Women Workers After WWII (The U.A.W. 1944-54)
Discusses the position of the female industrial worker after WWII, how women dealt with discrimination in the workplace and within their unions, and how they responded to the sweeping layoffs of women workers that occurred at War's end.
Familial Constraints on Women's Work Roles
Contents
Different Work Settings for Women Through History
- Hunting and Gathering Societies
- The Early Agrovillages
- Table 1. The Daily Life of the Woman Villager
- Table 2. Participation by Women in the Traditional Rural and Modernizing…
Different Work Settings for Women Through History
- Hunting and Gathering Societies
- The Early Agrovillages
- Table 1. The Daily Life of the Woman Villager
- Table 2. Participation by Women in the Traditional Rural and Modernizing…