Gendered Practices in Working Life

✍ Scribed by Liisa Rantalaiho, Tuula Heiskanen (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Gendered distinctions and differences in working life are produced by often hidden practices. What are they like? How do they work? The book creates, through its multidisciplinary approach and rich empirical data, a wide perspective on gendered practices in working life, from the level of labour market structures to the personal experiences of women and men. Some taken-for-granted assumptions of gender in social sciences and feminist research are challenged by a view through the 'Nordic window'.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Studying Gendered Practices....Pages 3-15
Contextualising Gender....Pages 16-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-35
Making Gender with Classifications....Pages 37-51
Gender Matters in Collective Bargaining....Pages 52-65
Working Within and Between Hierarchies....Pages 66-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-87
Work and Parenthood....Pages 89-100
Autonomy and Time in Home-Based Work....Pages 101-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-122
Anne’s Story: Sexual Harassment as a Process....Pages 123-137
One’s ‘Own’ Information Systems....Pages 138-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-158
Desegregation — How to Climb Invisible Walls....Pages 159-173
Comparable Worth as Social Problem-Solving....Pages 174-187
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Persistence and Change of Gendered Practices....Pages 191-196
Back Matter....Pages 197-214

✦ Subjects

Politics of the Welfare State;Gender Studies;Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology