Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)

Women are making significant progress in the economy, but they still face obstacles such as discrimination, exploitation, and harassment. Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know provides an accessible introduction to the significance of women in the economy and the challenges they face. It highlights how the experience of being a woman in the labor market varies by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status and explores how living in cities, towns, and rural areas influence choices and outcomes.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 23 June 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

Women are increasingly participating in the workforce, making strides as entrepreneurs and leaders, pursuing higher education, delaying marriage, and having fewer children. These trends align with a significant increase in the duration of their adult lives dedicated to labor. Despite these advancements, women continue to face systemic discrimination, exploitation, harassment, and worse. While women have shattered the glass ceiling and challenged gender and sexual norms, powerful movements like #TimesUP and #MeToo remain essential in addressing and eradicating endemic discrimination.

Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know® offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the importance of women in the economy and the challenges they encounter in achieving equal status. Economists Laura M. Argys and Susan L. Averett address timely topics such as the wage gap, women's work, and gendered workplace interactions in a user-friendly question-and-answer format. The book delves into the choices individuals make and how these are shaped by institutional barriers that perpetuate inequalities in the options available to men and women. Argys and Averett emphasize the diverse experiences of women in the labor market, varying significantly based on factors such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. They also explore how living in cities, towns, and rural areas impacts decision-making and outcomes.

Covering a wide range of topics, including breastfeeding and work, earnings penalties for women who have taken time away from work, childcare while women work, the gender pay gap, and the unique challenges women face as they age and transition to retirement, this book provides essential answers to the pressing questions surrounding women in the workforce. By shedding light on these issues, Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know® contributes to a more inclusive and equitable society.

Weight: 260g
Dimension: 138 x 208 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780190093389