Job queues, gender queues : explaining women's inroads into male occupations / Barbara F. Reskin, Patricia A. Roos ; with case studies by Katharine M. Donato [and others]
Preface; Part I Explaining the Changing Sex Composition of Occupations; 1 Occupational Sex Segregation: Persistence and Change; 2 Queueing and Changing Occupational Composition; 3 Consequences of Desegregation: Occupational Integration and Economic Equity?; Part II Case Studies of Occupational Change; 4 Culture, Commerce, and Gender: The Feminization of Book Editing; 5 Industrial and Occupational Change in Pharmacy: Prescription for Feminization; 6 Keepers of the Corporate Image: Women in Public Relations
Summary
A controversial interpretation of women's dramatic inroads into several male occupations
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-369) and indexes
