Women and the Economy: A Reader

Ellen Mutari, Deborah M. Figart

• 1: Methodologies for Studying Women and the Economy; 1: Rethinking Economics Through a Feminist Lens; 2: Revisiting Class; 3: Feminist Economics; 2: The Rise and Fall of Separate Spheres; 4: Breadwinners and Other Workers; 5: Industrialization, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Modern Division of Labor by Sex; 6: Men and Monotony; 7: Exploring “Present Through the Past”; 8: Marriage, Children, and Women's Employment; 3: Households and Social Reproduction; 9: The Economic Risks of Being a Housewife; 10: For Love or Money—Or Both?; 11: Student Attitudes Toward Roles of Women and Men; 12: The Household as a Focus for Research; 4: Mainstream Approaches to Labor Market Outcomes; 13: The Earnings Gap and Family Choices; 14: Race and Gender Wage Gaps in the Market for Recent College Graduates; 15: Motor Bus Deregulation and the Gender Wage Gap; 16: “That Single-Mother Element”; 5: Heterodox Approaches to Labor Market Outcomes; 17: The Political Economy of Labor Market Discrimination; 18: Black Women's Breakthrough into Clerical Work; 19: Gender as More Than a Dummy Variable; 20: Just Checking It Out; 6: Policies Affecting Women, Work, and Families; 21: Single, with Children; 22: The Minimum Wage Increase; 23: The Challenge of Comparable Worth; 24: Curing Child Poverty in the United States; 25: Why Americans Need Family Leave Benefits and How They Can Get Them; 7: The Gendered Impact of Economic Development and Globalization; 26: Gender and International Labor Standards in the World Economy; 27: Globalization, Gender, and the Davos Man; 28: Development, Gender, and the Environment; 29: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women