✦ LIBER ✦

Economic and social causes of sexism and of the exploitation of women

✍ Scribed by George W. Albee; Melissa Perry

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 174 KB
Volume: 8
Category: Article
ISSN: 1052-9284
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1298(199803/04)8:2<145::aid-casp464>3.0.co;2-o

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Psychologists have neglected the role of the social, economic and political systems in determining behaviour. Rather, our ®eld, consciously or unconsciously, has been instrumental in upholding the status quo. We have accepted society's ruling ideas that perpetuate exploitation, especially of women in the world of work. Women are often the last to be hired and the ®rst to be ®red. They are employed part-time and ®red early to avoid the cost of fringe bene®ts and retirement costs. Ideas about women's roles, generated by capitalism and patriarchal religions, are responsible for widespread sexism and the exploitation of many powerless groups, but especially girls and women. This paper reviews several examples of sexist exploitation that have an economic base.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

The economic causes and consequences of

The economic causes and consequences of corporate divestiture

✍ Myeong-Hyeon Cho; Mark A. Cohen 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 96 KB 👁 2 views

This study investigates economic causes and consequences of large corporate divestitures between 1983 and 1987. Prior empirical evidence suggests that ®rms hold on to poorly performing operating units for many years before divestiture. An agency-cost explanation for `holding on to losers' has been p

The economic and social cost of dementia

The economic and social cost of dementia in Ireland

✍ Eamon O'Shea; Siobhan O'Reilly 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 116 KB 👁 1 views

The economic and social burden of dementia on society is the value of all the resources used to prevent, diagnose, treat, and generally cope with the illness. There is increasing pressure to de®ne the cost components of dementia with a view to improving resource allocation and accountability in this

Autobiographical memory and social skill

Autobiographical memory and social skills of men and women

✍ Rüdiger F. Pohl; Michael Bender; Gregor Lachmann 📂 Article 📅 2005 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 277 KB 👁 1 views

The social economics of Jean-Baptiste Sa

The social economics of Jean-Baptiste Say: Markets and virtue

✍ Michael Wolfe 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 151 KB

Randall Collins is one of America's great sociological theorists, but his new book, The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change, may have succeeded in writing him out of his own rather considerable reputation. The Sociology of Philosophies is a book of breathtaking range, o

Social economics of childhood glucocorti

Social economics of childhood glucocorticoid stress response and health

✍ Flinn, Mark V.; England, Barry G. 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 252 KB 👁 1 views

This study examines socioeconomic conditions, psychosocial stress, and health among 264 infants, children, adolescents, and young adults aged 2 months to 18 years residing in a rural Caribbean village. Fieldwork was conducted over a 9 year period (1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996

The women founders of the social science

The women founders of the social sciences

✍ Mary O. Furner 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 369 KB 👁 2 views

The clinical trial is one of the pinnacles of modern scientific medicine, but, as J. Rosser Matthews persuasively shows in his Quantification and the Quest for Medical Certainty, the union of statistics and medicine followed an extended, often stormy, courtship that lasted well over a century and in