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Legalizing Gender Inequality

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Legalizing Gender Inequality challenges existing theories of gender inequality within economic, sociological, and legal organizations. The book argues that male-female earnings differentials cannot be explained adequately by market forces, principles of efficiency, or society-wide sexism. Rather it suggests that employing organizations tend to disadvantage holders of predominantly female jobs by denying them power in organizational politics and by reproducing male cultural advantages. These findings contradict major legal precedents which have argued that labor markets and not employers are the source of inequality. The authors further argue that comparable worth is an inappropriate remedy, as such an approach misdiagnoses the causes of gender inequality and often falls prey to the same organizational processes that initially generated this differential. The book argues that the courts have, by uncritically accepting the market explanation for male-female wage disparity, tended to legitimate and to legalize a crucial dimension of gender inequality in American society.

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ISBN: 9780521627504
Publication date: 28th May 1999
Author: Robert L American Bar Foundation Chicago and Northwestern University, Illinois Nelson, William P University of Il Bridges
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 412 pages
Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
Genres: Gender studies, gender groups
Labour / income economics