ABSTRACT
Besides facing issues such as occupational segregation, the wage gap, and the lack of mobility, which affect all working women, working-class women confront problems that differ dramatically from those of women in middle-class and professional occupations. Typically, working-class women work in jobs considered unskilled, usually with little job security, with low pay and few or no benefits (health and retirement insurance or paid vacations). The work is often repetitive, tedious, physically demanding and, most of all, boring (Rosen 1987; Cavendish 1982).
