Women and Work, Hardcover by Davies, Ross, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
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Women and Work, Hardcover by Davies, Ross, Brand New, Free shipping in the US. Women and Work, Hardcover by Davies, Ross, ISBN 1138243159, ISBN-13 9781138243156, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In this book, first published in 1975, the author examines the role of women in the workforce. Despite representing a rapidly increasing section of the workforce, why are women still overwhelmingly confined to unskilled jobs? Why do they hold such a tiny proportion of managerial and professional posts? In answering these vital questions Ross Davies shows how women’s economic roles in pre-industrial society were modified and distorted by industrialisation; how this legacy of exploitation has affected contemporary attitudes among both men and women; and how the present situation should be seen and assessed in its proper perspective. Women and Work, Hardcover by Davies, Ross, ISBN 1138243159, ISBN-13 9781138243156, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In this book, first published in 1975, the author examines the role of women in the workforce. Despite representing a rapidly increasing section of the workforce, why are women still overwhelmingly confined to unskilled jobs? Why do they hold such a tiny proportion of managerial and professional posts? In answering these vital questions Ross Davies shows how women’s economic roles in pre-industrial society were modified and distorted by industrialisation; how this legacy of exploitation has affected contemporary attitudes among both men and women; and how the present situation should be seen and assessed in its proper perspective.
