Origins of the Gendered division of Labor
The problem with sex/gender and nature/nurture / Anne Fausto-Sterling
"Night to his day" : the social construction of gender / Judith Lorber
Culture, gender, and math / Luigi Guiso, Ferdinando Monte, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales
Montagnais women and the Jesuit program for colonization / Eleanor Leacock
Capitalism, patriarchy, and job segregation by sex / Heidi Hartmann
Gender and Work in History
Women's work and the family in nineteenth-century Europe / Joan W. Scott and Louise A. Tilly
Housewifery: household work and household tools under pre-industrial conditions / Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Black women, work and the family under slavery / Jacqueline Jones
The paradox of motherhood: night work restrictions in the United States / Alice Kessler-Harris
Gender, Wages, and Inequality
Still a man's labor marke: the long-term earnings gap / Ashley English and Ariane Hegewisch
The social organization of toy stores / Christine L. Williams
The milk of human kindness / Nancy Folbre
Gender, Management, and the Professions
The impact of hierarchical structures on the work behavior of women and men / Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Women and men as litigators: gender differences on the job / Jennifer Pierce
The glass escalator: hidden advantages for men in the "female" professions / Christine L. Williams
Black mobility in white corporations: up the corporate ladder but out on a limb / haron M. Collins
Gender and labor in Asian immigrant families / Yen Le Espiritu
Gender and Low-Waged Work
The interlocking of gender with nationality, race, ethnicity and class: the narratives of women in hotel work / Amel Adib and Yvonne Guerrier
"Outsider within" the station house: the impact of race and gender on black women police / Susan E. Martin
When feminism had class / Dorothy Sue Cobble
Myths of docile girls and matriarchs: local profiles of global workers / Carla Freeman
Gender and the Global Division of Labor
New world domestic order / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Trope chasing: making a local labor market / Leslie Salzinger
Imagining sex and gender in the workplace / Pun Ngai
Breadwinners no more: masculinity in flux / Michele Ruth Gamburd
Thailand: because she looks like a child / Kevin Bales
Gendered Discrimination at Work
Unconsciousness raising / Barbara Reskin
The hidden discourse of masculinity in gender discrimination law / Tyson Smith and Michael Kimmel
"That single mother element" : How white employers typify black women / Ivy Kennelly
Marking gender boundaries: porn, piss, power tools / Susan Eisenberg
Men behaving badly / Margaret Talbot
The administrative mother / Arlie Russell Hochschild
Black mothering, paid work and identity / Tracey Reynolds
Families on the frontier: from Braceros in the fields to Braceras in the home / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
More alike than different: revisiting the long-term prospects for developing "European-style" work/family policies in the United States / Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers
A Sample of Policy Alternatives
The stool makers of Jobra village / Muhammad Yunus
Women's education: a global challenge / Martha C. Nussbaum
Affirmative action at school and on the job / Shannon Harper and Barbara Reskin
Support for working families / Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers.