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Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women in America

Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women in America

Nelson, Robert L.
Bridges, William
Granovetter, Mark

Paperback

Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Book 16

Business GeneralGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0521627508
ISBN13: 9780521627504
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 28 1999
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.97 Depth: 8.93
Language: English
Based on case studies of four organizations that were sued for pay discrimination, Legalizing Gender Inequality challenges existing theories of gender inequality within economic, sociological, and legal contexts. 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 reproducing male cultural advantages. The book argues that the courts have, by uncritically accepting the market explanation for wage disparity, tended to legitimate and to legalize a crucial dimension of gender inequality.

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