Latinas and African American women at work : race, gender, and economic inequality / Irene Browne, editor.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Browne, Irene
Language:English
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1999], ©1999.
Subjects:
African American women > Employment.
Hispanic American women > Employment.
Physical Description:x, 441 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Latinas and African American women in the U.S. labor market / Irene Browne
  • The economic progress of African American women / Mary Corcoran
  • Loosing ground: the erosion of the relative earnings of African American women during the 1980s / John Bound and Laura Dresser
  • The economic progress of Mexican and Puerto Rican women / Mary Corcoran, Colleen M. Heflin, and Belinda L. Reyes
  • Gender, race, ethnicity, and wages / Paula England, Karen Christopher, and Lori L. Reid
  • Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity among women workers / Barbara F. Reskin
  • Generational paths into and out of work: personal narratives of Puerto Rican women in New York / Aixa N. Cintrón-Vélez
  • Mexican-origin women in southwestern labor markets / Susan González Baker
  • Getting off and staying off: racial differences in the work route off welfare / Kathryn Edin and Kathleen Mullan Harris
  • Stereotypes and realities: images of black women in the labor market / Irene Browne and Ivy Kennelly
  • Perceptions of workplace discrimination among black and white professional-managerial women / Elizabeth Higginbotham and Lynn Weber
  • Black women and the new world order: toward a fit in the economic marketplace / Delores P. Aldridge
  • Now you see 'em, now you don't: race, ethnicity, and gender in labor market research / Barbara F. Reskin and Camille Z. Charles
  • Latinas and African American women in the labor market: implications for policy / Joya Misra.