Introduction : how gender works, in the practice of theory and other social processes / Gracia Clark -- Concepts of gender within economic change. Archeology and the gender without history / F. Ann Pyburn. Rain and cattle : gendered structure and political economy in precolonial Pare, Tanzania /...

Die Autorinnen und der Autor des Bandes möchten die Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Studie zu den mikrosozialen Ursachen und Mechanismen der geschlechtsspezifischen Segregation des Arbeitsmarktes präsentieren. Die Untersuchung beruht auf drei Fallstudien in drei unterschiedlichen Berufsfeldern:...

Supervisory and monitoring costs are explored to understand aspects of occupational segregation by sex. Around the turn of this century 47 percent of all female manufacturing operatives were paid by the piece, but only 13 percent of the males were. There were very few males and females employed...