Outline
Read
- Christine Bose and Rachel B. Whaley, “Sex Segregation in the U.S. Work Force.”
- Barbara Reskin, The Realities of Affirmative Action in Employment. American Sociological Society, 1998. ISBN: 9780912764368.
- Kathleen Gerson, “There’s No Such Thing as Having It All." In Gender in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Shannon N. Davis. University of California Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780520965188.
- National Partnership for Women and Families, “America’s Women and the Wage Gap” (PDF). May 2019.
- Alice Kessler-Harris, “The Wage Conceived: Value and Need as Measures of a Woman’s Worth.” In A Woman’s Wage. Alice Kessler-Harris, 2014. ISBN 9780813145136.
- Irene Padavic, and Barbara Reskin, “Moving Up and Taking Charge.” In Women and Men at Work. Pine Forge Press, 2002.
- Jodi Kantor, “Harvard Business School Case: Gender Equity.” The New York Times. September 7, 2013.
- Sheryl Sandberg, TED Talk, “Why There Are Too Few Women Leaders.” 2010.
- Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” The Atlantic. July/August 2012.
Homework #17
Workplace Benefits (PDF) (DOC)
Homework # 18
Select an item of your clothing manufactured outside the U.S. Taking no more than a half-hour online, discover what you can about its production: location of factory, age/gender of workers, average number of working hours, health and safety conditions, wages, any violations recorded.
Type up a paragraph or two of your findings.
