Job & Gender Queues

by Patricia A Roos, Barbara F. Reskin, Patricia A. Roos

Book Overview

Since 1970, women have made widely publicized gains in several customarily male occupations. Many commentators have understood this apparent integration as an important step to sexual equality in the workplace. Barbara F. Reskin and Patricia A. Roos read a different lesson in the changing gender composition of occupations that were traditionally reserved for men. With persuasive evidence, Job Queues, Gender Queues offers a controversial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877227438
• ISBN13: 9780877227434
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great reference!

Any female working in a formerly-male profession will find this book of interest. Since it's been written, several more professions have become "feminized" more quickly than has the workforce as a whole. Those of us who are in these professions find that our colleagues argue the same issues over and over without looking to other, similar professions, or to work like this, for information about what is occurring. Although the book may leave you with a bit of a negative attitude, hey, discrimination IS negative! The authors do use this as a call to action, pointing out that what has occurred is not necessarily going to continue, that occupational gender changes are in a state of flux, and that simply understanding what has occurred in the past may help us to change the future.