Gender at Work

by Rosemary Pringle and Ann Game

Book Overview

Three themes are drawn together in this book: gender and sexuality, the organisation of work, and the impact of technological change. Their inter-relationship is explored in six area studies: manufacturing, banking, retailing, computing, nursing and housework.

Gender at Work presents an account of how each area has changed since the Second World War; sets out ways in which the notion of what constitutes 'proper' work for men and women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0868612618
• ISBN13: 9780868612614
• Release Date: April 1983
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

An Australian view

Gives an Australian slant on various professions and the extent to which they have stereotypical associations with a given sex. Plus the impact of this on the wages and career paths of those in the professions.The authors focus on the effect of technological change on several professions. It should be said that "professions" in this book does not mean upscale white collar jobs. Instead, here, they tend to be in blue collar manufacturing and retail. Given this, the authors also look at trade unions within these professions and how they have outreached to women since World War 2. As a side note, the descriptions of computing seem so outdated. They wrote the book in 1983, before the rise of personal computers. The computers and tasks associated with them that the book discusses are archiac, yet even then, their effects were shown to ripple through the professions.