Race, Gender, And Discrimination At Work

Has the Problem of Inequality Gone Away?, Some Introductory Definitions, Recent Trends in Inequality, Racial Inequality, Gender Inequality, Occupational Typing Versus Status Segregation, Conclusion, Technical Appendix, Notes, Discrimination and Market Competition, The Becker Model: Core Assumptions, The Becker Model: Operation, The Feminist Gary Becker: Heidi Hartmann, Decision Theory: Why Organizations Don't Behave So Rationally After All, The Link Between Decision Theory and Discrimination: Buffering from Competition, Conclusion, Notes, What Determines If a Job Is Male or Female?, The Myth That Women Exclude Themselves from Employment: Supply-Side Theories of Occupational Sex-Typing, Demand -Side Theories of Occupational Sex-Typing: Some Preliminary Dead Ends, Demand-Side Theories of Occupational Sex-Typing: Buffering Models, Empirical Studies of Buffering and Sex-Typing, Notes, Why Are Women Confined to Low-Status Jobs?, Human Capital Theory, Problems with Human Capital Theory, Synthetic Turnover, Differential Visibility Models, The Simplest Theory: Employee Discrimination, Conclusion, Notes, Why Are Women Paid Less Than Men?, The Overcrowding Hypothesis, Human Capital Theory, Comparable Worth Theory, Production Constraint Theory, Notes, Why Are Blacks More Likely to Be Unemployed Than Are Whites?, A Cartographic Analysis of Race and Employment, Shiftlessness, IQ and Human Capital, Spatial Mismatch, Employer Discrimination, Notes, Twenty-Six Things to Remember About Discrimination Appendix A: Glossary, Appendix B: A Socratic Guide to Race and Gender Discrimination at Work, Appendix C: Problems for Deeper Thought, References, Index