Women and class : What has happened in forty years?

Monthly Review

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 80-93

  Luce, Stephanie ^a   Brenner, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 33746050906     PISSN: 00270520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14452/mr-058-03-2006-07_8     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. Irene Padavic, "Patterns of Labor Force Participation and Sex Segregation" (conference paper, 3rd Annual Invitational Journalism-Work/Family Conference, Boston University and Brandeis University, Community, Families & Work Program, May 20-21, 2004).
2. This is for full-time workers. Stephen J. Rose & Heidi I. Hartmann, Still a Man's Labor Market: The Long-Term Earnings Gap (Washington D.C.: Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2004), http://www.iwpr.org/pdf/C355.pdf.
3. Data in this article comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Populaton Survey, Women in the Labor Force Databook 2005, unless otherwise specified. See http://www.bls.gov/cps/wlf-table9-2005.pdf.
4. http://www.bls.gov/cps/wlf-table4-2005.pdf.
5. http://www.bls.gov/cps/wlf-table5-2005.pdf.
6. Heather Boushey, "Are Mothers Really Leaving the Workplace?" (issue brief, Council on Contemporary Families and the Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 28, 2006).
7. http://www.bls.gov/cps/wlf-intro-2005.pdf.
8. Economic Policy Institute, http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/ datazone_dznational.
9. Erik Olin Wright & Rachel Dwyer, "The American Jobs Machine: Is the New Economy Creating Good Jobs?" Boston Review 25 (December/January 2000-01): 21-26.
10. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Time Use Survey.
11. Irene Padavic & Barbara Reskin, Women and Men at Work, 2nd ed. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. 2002).
12. National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates.
13. Johanna Brenner, Women and the Politics of Class (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000).
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15. http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/hstpov4.html.
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18. Johanna Brenner & Barbara Laslett, "Gender, Social Reproduction, and Women's Self-Organization: Considering the U.S. Welfare State," Gender and Society 5, no. 3 (1991): 311-33.
19. For a useful debate between different theoretical/political positions about the merits and weaknesses of comparable worth policies see Paula England, Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence (New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 1992).