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Nine to Five: How Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Continue to Define the American Workplace
Joanna L. Grossman
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Nine to Five provides a lively and accessible introduction to the laws and policies regulating sex, sexuality, and gender identity in the American workplace. Contemporary cases and events reveal the breadth and persistence of sexism and gender stereotyping. Through a series of essays organized around sex discrimination, sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination, and pay equity, the book highlights legal rules and doctrines that privilege men over women and masculinity over femininity. In understanding the law - what it forbids, what it allows, and to what it turns a blind eye - we see why it is far too soon to declare ... Read more
Nine to Five provides a lively and accessible introduction to the laws and policies regulating sex, sexuality, and gender identity in the American workplace. Contemporary cases and events reveal the breadth and persistence of sexism and gender stereotyping. Through a series of essays organized around sex discrimination, sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination, and pay equity, the book highlights legal rules and doctrines that privilege men over women and masculinity over femininity. In understanding the law - what it forbids, what it allows, and to what it turns a blind eye - we see why it is far too soon to declare ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
402
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107589827
SKU
V9781107589827
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-18
About Joanna L. Grossman
Joanna L. Grossman is the Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professor of Family Law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, New York. An expert in sex discrimination law, she has coauthored numerous books, including Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in Twentieth Century America, winner of the David J. Langum, Sr Prize in American ... Read more
Reviews for Nine to Five: How Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Continue to Define the American Workplace
'If you think that gender inequality is a thing of the past, guess again. In this broad-ranging book, Joanna Grossman combines her extraordinary legal expertise about sex discrimination in the workplace with a brilliant diagnostic eye for how specific workplace practices continue to maintain an unfair and unequal playing field for women. Drawing on dozens of specific cases of mistreatment ... Read more