In this pathbreaking book, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth century, focusing on three sets of issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument over equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the current debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories. Together these issues trace the many ways in which gendered meaning has been produced, transmitted, and challenged.
- ISBN10 0813108039
- ISBN13 9780813108032
- Publish Date 25 July 1991 (first published 1 January 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 August 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint The University Press of Kentucky
- Format Paperback
- Pages 184
- Language English