This book presents an interpretation of the nature, causes, and consequences of sex inequality in the modern labour market. Employing a new theoretical framework, and drawing on original fieldwork, it develops a subtle account of the phenomenon of sex segregation and offers a major challenge to existing approaches. In an environment increasingly defined by attempts to converge and consolidate international policy objectives, an in-depth understanding of contemporary forms of inequality is vital to anyone interested in the effective translation of normative accounts of social justice into pract ... More
Keywords: sex inequality, labour market, sex segregation, inequality, social justice, social policy, policy makers
Print publication date: 2006 | Print ISBN-13: 9781861345998 |
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861345998.001.0001 |