Geography, Gender, and the Workaday World

by Susan Hanson

In her Hettner-Lecture, Susan Hanson talked about the role of women in the U.S. labor market. Based on the observation that women tend to work in different types of jobs and occupations and earn less money, Hanson shows how the geography of everyday life can contribute to an understanding of these gender-related differences. Therefore a geographic perspective is essential to creating urban labor markets in which opportunity is not arrayed by gender...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3515083693
• ISBN13: 9783515083690
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
• Length: 76 Pages