Table of Contents

CONTENTS

PART I

GENDER AND METHODOLOGY

1. Frances R. Woolley (1993), ‘The Feminist Challenge to Neoclassical Economics’
2. Julie A .Nelson (1992), ‘Gender, Metaphor, and the Definition of Economics’
3. Paula England (1989), ‘A Feminist Critique of Rational-Choice Theories: Implications for Sociology’

PART II

GENDER AND THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS

4. Michèle Pujol (1984), ‘Gender and Class in Marshall’s Principles of Economics’
5. Nancy Folbre (1991), ‘The Unproductive Housewife: Her Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Economic Thought’
6. F. Y. Edgeworth (1923), ‘Women’s Wages in Relation to Economic Welfare’

PART III

THE FAMILY, HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTION, AND MARKET WORK

A HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTION AND THE ALLOCATION OF TIME

7. Gary S. Becker (1965), ‘A Theory of the Allocation of Time’
8. Robert H. Pollak (1985), ‘A Transactions Cost Approach to Families and Households’
9. Gary S. Becker (1985), ‘Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor’
10. Heidi I. Hartmann (1981), ‘The Family as the Locus of Gender, Class, and Political Struggle: The Example of Housework’

B GENDER AND LABOUR SUPPLY

11. Jacob Mincer (1962), ‘Labor Force Participation of Married Women: A Study of Labor Supply’
12. R. Layard, M. Barton and A. Zabalza (1980), ‘Married Women’s Participation and Hours’
13. Heather E. Joshi, Richard Layard and Susan J. Owen (1985), ‘Why are more Women Working in Britain?’

C GENDER DIFFERENCES IN OCCUPATIONS AND EARNINGS

14. Barbara R. Bergmann (1974), ‘Occupational Segregation, Wages and Profits when Employers Discriminate by Race or Sex’
15. Jacob Mincer and Solomon Polachek (1974), ‘Family Investments in Human Capital: Earnings of Women’
16. Andrea H. Beller (1982), ‘Occupational Segregation by Sex: Determinants and Changes’
17. Paula England (1982), ‘The Failure of Human Capital Theory to Explain Occupational Sex Segregation’
18. Gary S. Becker (1968), ‘Discrimination, Economic’
19. Henry Sanborn (1964), ‘Pay Differences between Men and Women’
20. William G. Shepherd and Sharon G. Levin (1973), ‘Managerial Discrimination in Large Firms’
21. Dennis J. Aigner and Glen G. Cain (1977), ‘Statistical Theories of Discrimination in Labor Markets’
22. Marianne A. Ferber and Helen M. Lowry (1976), ‘The Sex Differential in Earnings: A Reappraisal’
23. Morley Gunderson (1989), ‘Male-Female Wage Differentials and Policy Responses’
24. Robert E. Wright and John F. Ermisch (1991), ‘Gender Discrimination in the British Labor Market: A Reassessment’
25. Christine Craig, Elizabeth Garnsey and Jill Rubery (1985), ‘Labor Market Segmentation and Women’s Employment: A Case-Study from the United Kingdom’
26. Mary E. Corcoran and Paul N. Courant (1987), ‘Sex-Role Socialization and Occupational Segregation: An Exploratory Investigation’
27. Sara Horrell, Jill Rubery and Brendan Burchell (1990), ‘Gender and Skills’

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Edited by Jane Humphries, Fellow of Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UK

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