Class, gender, and the family unit: a dynamic model of stratification and class politics

Article Abstract:

This article examines the relation between class position and dual earner couples. The authors, analyzing the results of a survey, conclude that most couples agree on their class identification and politics, husbands are more influenced by their wife's family's class position, whereas wives are more influenced by their husband's current job, and cross-class couples have no more conflict that same class couples.

United Kingdom, Social aspects, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Social classes, Social class, Married women, Married men, Dual-career families

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Occupational gender segregation and the earnings gap: changes in the 1980s

Article Abstract:

The earnings gap and occupational segregation between men and women have declined as per the 1980 and 1990 US Census data. Gender gap in hourly earnings has declined by 6.5 percentage points. There is no difference in the decline percentage for white and colored women. The decline in the earnings gap is directly related to a fall in occupational segregation and more equal pay within similar occupations.

Compensation and benefits, Working women, Pay equity

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Gender status beliefs

Article Abstract:

The studies of gender and its status effects are reviewed showing a general pattern that gender affects interaction as other diffuse status characteristics such as skin, color, age, and occupation do. The ways to use Ridgeway's analysis and the findings to develop interventions aimed at countering effects of status beliefs in organizational settings are suggested.

Analysis, Control, Sex discrimination, Female-male relations, Gender studies

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