1. Has the Problem of Inequality Gone Away? Some Introductory Definitions. Recent Trends in Inequality. Racial Inequality. Gender Inequality. Occupational Typing Versus Status Segregation -- 2. Discrimination and Market Competition. The Becker Model: Core Assumptions. The Becker Model: Operation. The Feminist Gary Becker: Heidi Hartmann. Decision Theory: Why Organizations Don't Behave So Rationally After All. The Link Between Decision Theory and Discrimination: Buffering from Competition -- 3. What Determines If a Job Is Male or Female? The Myth That Women Exclude Themselves from Employment: Supply-Side Theories of Occupational Sex-Typing. Demand-Side theories of Occupational Sex-Typing: Some Preliminary Dead Ends. Demand-Side Theories of Occupational Sex-Typing: Buffering Models. Empirical Studies of Buffering and Sex-Typing -- 4. Why Are Women Confined to Low-Status Jobs? Human Capital Theory. Problems with Human Capital Theory. Synthetic Turnover
Differential Visibility Models. The Simplest Theory: Employee Discrimination -- 5. Why Are Women Paid Less Than Men? The Overcrowding Hypothesis. Human Capital Theory. Comparable Worth Theory. Production Constraint Theory -- 6. Why Are Blacks More Likely to Be Unemployed Than Are Whites? A Cartographic Analysis of Race and Employment. Shiftlessness. IQ and Human Capital. Spatial Mismatch. Employer Discrimination -- 7. Twenty-Six Things to Remember About Discrimination -- App. B. A Socratic Guide to Race and Gender Discrimination at Work -- App. C. Problems for Deeper Thought
