Gender And Power In The Workplace
Using original material from interviews with female and male employees in five case-study organizations, this book explores how processes of gendering are played out in the sphere of employment. The author develops a new approach to power in terms of the range of resources which are used by women to challenge male domination and by men to resist women's encroachment. This approach is used to unpack the complexities of power relations of gender and class as they are played out in the everyday...
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Using original material from interviews with female and male employees in five case-study organizations, this book explores how processes of gendering are played out in the sphere of employment. Booknews Drawing on employer interviews in five British organizations, Bradley (sociology, U. of Bristol) probes the "who's doing what to whom" gender, class, and power context for responding to tough questions about the restructuring workplace: why men still earn more than women; how dual-income couples affect the sexual division of labor at home and in the office; the role of labor unions in promoting gender equality; and whether women are breaking the "glass ceiling" at the expense of men. The author concludes by connecting workplace feminization with globalization. Tables document prevalent gender segregation and other trends. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
List of TablesAcknowledgements1Introduction12The Context of Change: Employment Class and Gender123Theorizing Change: Class, Gender and Power204Workplaces in a State of Change: The Research Organizations and their Employees385Women and Men at Work: Gender, Inequality and Jobs576'Breaking Through': Equalizing Opportunities and Change837Competitiveness at Work: Restructuring and Its Impact1108A Post-Industrial Proletariat? Class, Change and Identity1359Sisters are Doing it...? Women in the Union16110Class, Gender and Power18911Conclusion: Feminization and Globalization209Appendix227Bibliography232Index244
\ BooknewsDrawing on employer interviews in five British organizations, Bradley (sociology, U. of Bristol) probes the "who's doing what to whom" gender, class, and power context for responding to tough questions about the restructuring workplace: why men still earn more than women; how dual-income couples affect the sexual division of labor at home and in the office; the role of labor unions in promoting gender equality; and whether women are breaking the "glass ceiling" at the expense of men. The author concludes by connecting workplace feminization with globalization. Tables document prevalent gender segregation and other trends. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
