Working Women in America: Split Dreams |  | Authors: Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Gregg Carter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 0195110250
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.40973
EAN: 9780195110258
ASIN: 0195110250
Publication Date: August 19, 1999
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Working Women in America: Split Dreams studies the dynamic growth in women's labor force participation with an eye to understanding what the actual experience of working women is today. The book offers a broad perspective on the diversity of women and their work, and it raises the need to rethink ideas concerning work, family and gender roles in order to help solve women's work and family lie dilemmas. It utilizes a structural approach to rethink these ideas and resolve these dilemmas. The book's central argument is that to understand the position of women in the work world, one must analyze women's situation in the economy, the family, education, and the polity -- in short, within society as large -- because these various social institutions connect, reflect and influence one another. The authors begin with an historical perspective on women at work which recognizes the importance of the economic and legal dimensions of women's work lives. This broad perspective lays the groundwork to a further examination of the particular work situations of women and a recognition of the fact that diversity of women's work experiences are formed by racial, class, and other inequalities (sexual, age, etc.).
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Women and Work April 13, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book focuses on the problems that face women everyday in the workplace. Whether one is actually referring to the labor force as the workplace, or the home as the workplace is a huge part of this book. Our society accepts that women should automatically take on the responsibilities of child care and housekeeping in addition to a regular job (if they wish to even have a job on top of all these tasks). It's not easy for women, and Hesse-Biber uses several examples and hard data to back up this book.Not only is the "average, white American supermom" discusses, but also the differences in race, class, and other factors that can influence women's place in the "working world." The book is very useful and Hesse-Biber always takes a strong feminist perspective. One fault would probably be that she doesn't show both sides as best she could, but overall, the book is an enjoyable one.
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