Working women: economic and social considerations
Unger, K.
Occupational Medicine 8(4): 859-868
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0885-114X PMID: 8303497 Document Number: 421205
The social, political, and economic forces that have drawn women into the labor force are complex and interrelated. This chapter presents four major concerns of working women: gender wage differentials, working hours and flexible schedules, nonwage compensation, and working conditions. Women are a relatively recent phenomenon in the work-for-wages market, and their specific economic concerns are not well understood by society. As their numbers increase in the workplace, these concerns will assume greater importance.