discrimination in employment

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discrimination in employment

Working women

This collection of articles pro and con on working women examines whether women experience discrimination at work, how motherhood affects working women, whether the Lean In movement helps working women, and how workplace harassment affects working women.

We could not fail

the first African Americans in the space program

The good girls revolt

how the women of Newsweek sued their bosses and changed the workplace
Examines the women's revolt of the 1960s at Newsweek magazine and its impact on the feminist movement.

The wage gap

2014
Contains over twenty essays that offer varying perspectives on controversial issues related to the wage gap, such as whether it is narrowing, what causes it, and the effects of education on it.

Brotherhoods of color

black railroad workers and the struggle for equality
2001
Discusses the history of African-American labor in the railroad industry, including struggles against the racism of co-workers, employers, and unions.

Opportunity denied

limiting Black women to devalued work
2011

The wage gap

Presents a collection of essays representing opposing viewpoints on different topics concerning the wage gap. Includes chapters on whether the wage gap is due to gender discrimination, whether the wage gaps between rich and poor, and among races, are harmful, and if education is the key to reducing the wage gap. Includes a list of organizations to contact and a bibliography.

Philadelphia

2000
A story of two lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.

Job discrimination

how to fight, how to win
1996

Gender & racial inequality at work

the sources and consequences of job segregation
1993

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