| Women and Work Contributor(s): Davies, Ross (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138243159 ISBN-13: 9781138243156 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $138.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women and Business |
| Physical Information: 194 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this book, first published in 1975, the author examines the role of women in the workforce. Despite representing a rapidly increasing section of the workforce, why are women still overwhelmingly confined to unskilled jobs? Why do they hold such a tiny proportion of managerial and professional posts? In answering these vital questions Ross Davies shows how women's economic roles in pre-industrial society were modified and distorted by industrialisation; how this legacy of exploitation has affected contemporary attitudes among both men and women; and how the present situation should be seen and assessed in its proper perspective. |
