Race and Gender Discrimination at Work

Abstract

* 1. Has the Problem of Inequality Gone Away? * Some Introductory Definitions * Recent Trends in Inequality * Racial Inequality * Gender Inequality * Occupational Typing Versus Status Segregation * Conclusion * Notes * 2. 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 * 3. 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 * 4. 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 * 5. Why Are Women Paid Less Than Men? * The Overcrowding Hypothesis * Human Capital Theory * Comparable Worth Theory * Production Constraint Theory * Notes * 6. Why Are Blacks More Likely to Be Unemployed Than Are Whites? * Shiftlessness * IQ and Human Capital * Spatial Mismatch * Employer Discrimination * Notes * 7. Twenty-Six Things to Remember About Discrimination. * References * Index