The economist of women and work

PART ONE. MARKET WORK, HOMEWORK AND THE FAMILY -- Labor force participation of married women : a study of labor supply / Jacob Mincer -- A theory of the allocation of time / Gary Becker -- Time spent in housework / Joann Vanek -- Women's work and the family in nineteenth-century Europe / Joan W. Scott and Louise A. Tilly -- Economic perspectives on the family / Isabel V. Sawhill -- Class struggle and the persistence of the working-class family / Jane Humphries -- PART TWO. JOB SEGREGATION BY SEX AND WOMEN'S LOWER PAY -- Family investments in human capital : earnings of women / Jacob Mincer and Solomon Polachek -- The statistical theory of racism and sexism / Edmund S. Phelps -- Determinants of the structure of industrial type labor markets / Peter B. Doeringer -- A theory of labor market segmentation / Michael Reich, David M. Gordon, Richard C. Edwards -- Structured labour markets, worker organization and low pay / Jill Rubery -- Occupational segregation, wages and profits when employers discriminate by race or sex / Barbara R. Bergmann -- Sexual discrimination in the labour market / Brian Chiplin and Peter J. Sloane -- PART THREE. WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT AND THE ECONOMY -- The female-male differential in unemployment rates / Beth Niemi -- Curing high unemployment rates among Blacks and women / Barbra R. Bergmann -- The 1974-1975 recession and the employment of women / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -- Wives' labor force behavior and family consumption patterns / Myra H. Strober -- The employment of wives and the inequality of family income / James A. Sweet