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Author: Joanna L. Grossman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.690kg
ISBN: 9781107133365
ISBN 10: 110713336
Pages: 402
Publication Date: 03 May 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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If you think that gender inequality is a thing of the past, guess again. In this broad-ranging book, Joanna Grossman combines her extraordinary legal expertise about sex discrimination in the workplace with a brilliant diagnostic eye for how specific workplace practices continue to maintain an unfair and unequal playing field for women. Drawing on dozens of specific cases of mistreatment of women, Grossman shows the myriad ways in which society expects women to enter the workplace at their own risk and on someone else's terms ... and be grateful for it. Many chapters, written contemporaneously with the case reported on, are followed by updates showing how the law continues to evolve or, more often than not, how it remains the same. The book epitomizes the power of concrete examples to test generalizations about how far we have come toward gender equality, and how far we have left to go. Katharine T. Bartlett, A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law Despite a half century of laws and policies on gender equality, the United States is a significant distance from achieving it. Nine to Five is a highly insightful and lively account of what stands in the way. Joanna Grossman brings wit, eloquence and a wealth of knowledge to the persistent problems that women confront in American workplaces. Her proposed solutions redefine the agenda in our struggle for truly equal opportunity. Deborah Rhode, Professor of Law, and Director, Center on the Legal Profession, Stanford University Joanna L. Grossman's Nine to Five offers an insightful and wonderfully readable introduction to how the law governs sex, sexuality, and gender identity in the workplace. The book makes clear that gender continues to shape the policies and practices that Americans encounter at work. Nine to Five is a valuable resource for policymakers, students, scholars, employers, and employees. Jill Elaine Hasday, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Centennial Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
'If you think that gender inequality is a thing of the past, guess again. In this broad-ranging book, Joanna Grossman combines her extraordinary legal expertise about sex discrimination in the workplace with a brilliant diagnostic eye for how specific workplace practices continue to maintain an unfair and unequal playing field for women. Drawing on dozens of specific cases of mistreatment of women, Grossman shows the myriad ways in which society expects women to enter the workplace at their own risk and on someone else's terms ... and be grateful for it. Many chapters, written contemporaneously with the case reported on, are followed by updates showing how the law continues to evolve or, more often than not, how it remains the same. The book epitomizes the power of concrete examples to test generalizations about how far we have come toward gender equality, and how far we have left to go.' Katharine T. Bartlett, A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law 'Despite a half century of laws and policies on gender equality, the United States is a significant distance from achieving it. Nine to Five is a highly insightful and lively account of what stands in the way. Joanna Grossman brings wit, eloquence and a wealth of knowledge to the persistent problems that women confront in American workplaces. Her proposed solutions redefine the agenda in our struggle for truly equal opportunity.' Deborah Rhode, Professor of Law, and Director, Center on the Legal Profession, Stanford University 'Joanna L. Grossman's Nine to Five offers an insightful and wonderfully readable introduction to how the law governs sex, sexuality, and gender identity in the workplace. The book makes clear that gender continues to shape the policies and practices that Americans encounter at work. Nine to Five is a valuable resource for policymakers, students, scholars, employers, and employees.' Jill Elaine Hasday, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Centennial Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
Author Information
Joanna L. Grossman is the Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professor of Family Law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, New York. An expert in sex discrimination law, she has coauthored numerous books, including Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in Twentieth Century America, winner of the David J. Langum, Sr Prize in American Legal History, and Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women's Equal Citizenship.
