Gender realities local and global /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-, Demos, Vasilikie P.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; San Diego, CA : Elsevier JAI, 2005.
• Σειρά: Advances in gender research ; v. 9.
• Θέματα: Sex role.; Sex discrimination against women.; Women > Social conditions.; Globalization > Social aspects.; Gender studies: women.; Sociology: work & labour.; Social Science > Gender Studies.

The ten papers in "Gender Realities: Local and Global" document the types of work in which women engage, and gender equity issues they face. They show both the importance of considering the uniqueness of cultural contexts for understanding and resolving problems and how global interdepende...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction / Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos
• Gender segregation in the hidden labor force: looking at the relationship between the formal and informal economies / Karrie Ann Snyder
• Resettlement and risk: women's community work in Lesotho / Yvonne A. Braun
• Lessons from India: applying a "Third World" framework to examine the impacts of fisheries crisis on women in Newfoundland villages / Donna Harrison, Nicole Gerarda Power
• Gender, economic development and the Puerto Rican welfare state / Marietta Morrissey
• Dual-earner couples' expectations for joint retirement: a study of typical and atypical congruent and non-congruent couples / Autumn Behringer, Carolyn C. Perrucci, Richard Hogan
• The globalization of sexual harassment / John Markert
• Women's work-related and family-related discrimination and support in academia / Liisa Husu
• "Working much harder and always having to prove yourself": immigrant women's labor force experiences in the Canadian Maritimes / Evangelia Tastsoglou, Baukje Miedema
• Shooting the messenger and the message: the social basis of authority challenges in Canadian law school settings / Annette Nierobisz, John Hagan
• Processes of gendering and the institutionalization of gender in the family and school: a case study from Nepal / Jennifer Rothchild.