Key Issues in Women's Work: Female Heterogeneity and the Polarisation of Women's Employment

Catherin Hakim, London School of Economics

• Explaining women's subordination; marginal work and domestic work; feminization of the workforce; work orientations and work plans; labour mobility and women's employment profiles; occupational segregation and the pay gap; social engineering - the role of law; conclusions - female heterogeneity and workforce polarization.

"Thoughtful and thought provoking. Readers will be delighted or, alternatively, enraged by Dr. Hakim's controversial arguments." -Professor Gordon Marshall, Nuffield College, University of Oxford