ABSTRACT

This reader is designed for use as a primary or supplementary text for courses on women's role in the economy. Both interdisciplinary and heterodox in its approach, it showcases feminist economic analyses that utilize insights from institutionalism as well as neoclassical economics. Including both classic and newer selections from a broad range of areas, each section includes an introduction with background material, as well as discussion questions, exercises, and lists of key terms an further readings.

part 1|36 pages

Methodologies for Studying Women and the Economy

chapter 2|12 pages

Revisiting Class

Thinking from Gender, Race, and Organizations

chapter 3|10 pages

Feminist Economics

From Theory to Research

part 2|60 pages

The Rise and Fall of Separate Spheres

chapter 4|15 pages

Breadwinners and Other Workers

Gender and Race-Ethnicity in the Evolution of the Labor Force

chapter 6|15 pages

Men and Monotony

Fraternalism as a Managerial Strategy at the Ford Motor Company

chapter 7|4 pages

Exploring “Present Through the Past”

Career and Family Across the Last Century

chapter 8|10 pages

Marriage, Children, and Women's Employment

What Do We Know?

part 3|54 pages

Households and Social Reproduction

part 4|51 pages

Mainstream Approaches to Labor Market Outcomes

chapter 13|10 pages

The Earnings Gap and Family Choices

chapter 15|8 pages

Motor Bus Deregulation and the Gender Wage Gap

A Test of the Becker Hypothesis

chapter 16|16 pages

“That Single-Mother Element”

How White Employers Typify Black Women

part 5|57 pages

Heterodox Approaches to Labor Market Outcomes

chapter 17|14 pages

The Political Economy of Labor Market Discrimination

A Classroom-Friendly Presentation of the Theory

chapter 18|13 pages

Black Women's Breakthrough into Clerical Work

An Occupational Tipping Model

chapter 19|14 pages

Gender as More Than a Dummy Variable

Feminist Approaches to Discrimination

chapter 20|9 pages

Just Checking It Out

Exploring the Significance of Informal Gender Divisions Among American Supermarket Employees

part 6|40 pages

Policies Affecting Women, Work, and Families

chapter 21|8 pages

Single, with Children

The Economic Plight of Single Mothers

chapter 22|4 pages

The Minimum Wage Increase

A Working Woman's Issue

chapter 23|7 pages

The Challenge of Comparable Worth

An Institutionalist View

part 7|48 pages

The Gendered Impact of Economic Development and Globalization

chapter 28|11 pages

Development, Gender, and the Environment

Theoretical or Contextual Link? Toward an Institutional Analysis of Gender