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Gender and Policing: Comparative Perspectives
Jennifer Brown , and
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This is the first book to offer a comprehensive and wide-ranging survey of women's role in policing, drawing both on the authors' original comparative research and on the questions, theories and findings raised by the existing literature. Within a global and historically sensitive framework, the book explores such themes as the gender dimension of policing, the representation of policewomen, the extent to which different national traditions diverge or converge, the strategies adopted by policewomen and their colleagues or organizations in order to address the particular problems and challenges that their roles raise.
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An important work.......2003-07-27
This is an important book that helps us prepare for a future where we recognize and appreciate the great strengths women bring to law enforcement. By understanding the global perspectives of women in law enforcement, we can begin to eliminate the stereotypes and encourage the entry and success of more women into this noble profession.
Women Police Internationally.......2001-05-28
One of very few books describing the experiences of women police across national boundaries. Based on the authors' extensive research and interviews with women police officers, this book provides readers with a finely drawn picture of the roles women play in policing around the world.
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In this engrossing and original book, Leslie Salzinger takes us with her into the gendered world of Mexico's global factories. Her careful ethnographic work, personal voice, and sophisticated analysis capture the feel of life inside the maquiladoras and make a compelling case that transnational production is a gendered process. The research grounds contemporary feminist theory in an examination of daily practices and provides an important new perspective on globalization.
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The exploitation of gender for profit.......2005-06-25
"Genders in Production" by Leslie Salzinger is a groundbreaking study about production processes in Mexico's maquiladoras. This fascinating book should appeal to academics, feminists, labor activists and others who may be interested in learning about the dynamic processes by which globalization exploits gender for profit. Importantly, Ms. Salzinger's keen insight and analysis helps open the door to imagining a world where gender stereotypes could be transcended and labor rights accorded more respect.
Ms. Salzinger's meticulous ethnographic work at four maquila factories helps her obtain an insider's view of how sexual identities struggle for recognition and reward on the shop floor. The author discusses how the "trope of feminity" deludes investors into locating factories in places where it is believed that female laborers will passively accept routinized work for low wages. However, as the facts on the ground depart from this fantasy, the struggle between capital and labor is observed to be gendered but nonetheless highly variable and contextual.
Ms. Salzinger dedicates one chapter apiece to her experiences at four manufacturing plants in northern Mexico. She cleverly assigns pseudonyms to describe the salient characteristics of each plant. For example, "Andromex" is a factory where male and female workers become almost androgenous through the development of similar work habits; "Anarchomex" is noteworthy for its embattled masculine workers conflicting both amongst themselves and with female co-workers to create nearly anarchic conditions of production; and so on. The writing in these chapters is vivid, engaging and intelligent, imparting glimpses into both the worker's daily struggle for survival and the logic of the managerial systems that controls and exploits these workers.
I found it interesting (if not disheartening) to learn that capital's strategy of dividing the working class by gender has proven to be remarkably effective. By redefining production as primarily women's work, employers can pay below-subsistance wages and offer scant benefits, job enrichment or advancement opportunities. As made clear through Ms. Salzinger's field research, these diminished career expectations deprive the working class of Mexico with the hope of achieving a better life and are frequently used as a threat to drive down wages in the U.S. and other industrialized nations.
In the final chapter, Ms. Salzinger draws on feminist writings to connect the trope of feminity with cultural norms that tend to devalue women through their association with domesticity. By discovering that gendered meanings in the workplace can be flexible, however, the author suggests that subjectivity may be contestable. If structures of power are a "concatenation of common-sense understandings" about women's perceived role in the home, she argues, then the reality of changed meanings forged in the crucible of workplace production may point the way in time to new, empowered definitions.
I highly recommend this book to demanding readers who may be interested in an original and thought-provoking thesis about gender and globalization.
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"I'm delighted to see the updated version of
Women and Men in Management. This comprehensive volume is an outstanding resource for students, scholars, and professionals. Powell and Graves have done a great job updating the research literature and making it relevant with contemporary stories and examples. I particularly value the fact that the arguments are grounded in rigorous empirical research, while at the same time the writing is accessible to a wide audience. What a difference from the many sensation-seekers who inflame issues or exaggerate the differences between women and men in their quests for fame!"
--Alison M. Konrad, Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University
Around the world, women comprise a greater proportion of both workers and managers than ever before. However, women continue to be excluded from top management positions, segregated into low-paying occupations, and paid less for the same work as men.
Why does biological sex continue to have such a powerful effect in the workplace? Is it only a matter of time before individuals' work experiences are unaffected by their sex?
Women and Men in Management, Third Edition answers these questions and more. It provides a comprehensive review of the literature on gender and organizations. To reflect the explosion of research during the 10 years since the second edition, the book includes references to over 900 sources, of which over 80% are new to this edition. The book covers a unique and wide range of topics, including employment decisions, work teams, leadership, sexual harassment, workplace romance, career development, the glass ceiling, work and family, and strategies for promoting an organizational culture of nondiscrimination, diversity, and inclusion. It offers concrete recommendations that individuals and organizations may implement to ensure that all people have fulfilling and productive careers, regardless of their biological sex.
New to This Edition:
* Focus on "where we are now"
* Expanded coverage of topics that have received increased attention in recent years, including entrepreneurship, the glass ceiling, work and family, work teams, global leaders, career development, and employment decisions
* Strategies for promoting a culture of nondiscrimination, diversity, and inclusion
* An analysis of gender incorporates theories and research on the intersection of gender and other identities (race, ethnicity, age, nationality, and sexual orientation)
* An international focus through references to research studies and statistics from around the world
* Changes in the writing style and greater use of corporate examples have made this edition more accessible to a wider audience
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Women in Management.......2005-09-27
I am using this as a textbook for a class and it is very easy to read. It is filled with a great deal of helpful information regarding women climbing the coporate ladder.
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Challenging traditional beliefs about gender, Gerber develops a new model for understanding gender--the status model of gender stereotyping. She examines how expectations about status and gender impact police offers who work together as partners. Her study includes same-sex police partnerships as well as partnerships in which a woman works with a man. Interviews with police officers highlight the findings from Gerber's large-scale study of police partnerships. She explores what underlies gender stereotyping--why men appear to have more assertive or "instrumental" personality traits and women appear to have more accommodating or "expressive" traits. According to Gerber's status model, instrumental traits are associated with high status, and expressive traits are associated with low status; therefore, men and women only appear to have different personality traits because men have higher status than women. The book provides a provocative analysis for scholars and researchers in gender studies, criminal justice, psychology, and sociology, as well as for those involved in the supervision and training of police.
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Incredible! A must have for anyone interested in gender.......2003-04-25
Gerber does an excellent job of dispelling the belief that gender impacts certain behavioral traits. Instead, she shows how status has a much higher impact on behavior in police pairs. Definately check this title out!
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Sex, Strategy and the Stratosphere: Airlines and the Gendering of Organizational Culture
Albert Mills
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This book bridges a crucial gap in the literature on gender and organizational culture by providing an historical account of how discriminatory practices develop, are maintained but also change over time. Drawing on in-depth interviews and extensive archival material, the author presents an historical account of the way specific discriminatory practices developed and changed over the life of three airline companies--British Airways, Air Canada, and Pan American Airways. The book covers the period 1919 to 1991 and is organized around key periods in the hiring and treatment of female employees but the focus is on gender in the broadest sense of the word (looking at the social construction of male and female sexuality; heterosexuality and homosexuality). Gender is explored through analysis of organizational symbolism, workplace practices and organizational structuring. As a history of discriminatory practices the book is unique in the field of business and corporate history.
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Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it was among the most commonly investigated occupational health problems in the United States. Afflicted by headaches, rashes, and immune system disorders, office workersâmostly womenâprotested that their workplaces were filled with toxic hazards; yet federal investigators could detect no chemical cause. This richly detailed history tells the story of how sick building syndrome came into being: how indoor exposures to chemicals wafting from synthetic carpet, ink, adhesive, solvents, and so on became something that relatively privileged Americans worried over, felt, and ultimately sought to do something about. As Michelle Murphy shows, sick building syndrome provides a window into how environmental politics moved indoors.
Sick building syndrome embodied a politics of uncertainty that continues to characterize contemporary American environmental debates. Michelle Murphy explores the production of uncertainty by juxtaposing multiple histories, each of which explains how an expert or lay tradition made chemical exposures perceptible or imperceptible, existent or nonexistent. She shows how uncertainty emerged from a complex confluence of feminist activism, office worker protests, ventilation engineering, toxicology, popular epidemiology, corporate science, and ecology. In an illuminating case study, she reflects on EPA scientists’ efforts to have their headquarters recognized as a sick building. Murphy brings all of these histories together in what is not only a thorough account of an environmental health problem but also a much deeper exploration of the relationship between history, materiality, and uncertainty.
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Speaking of Sex explores a topic that too often drops out of our discussions when we speak about sex: the persistent problem of sex-based inequality and the cultural forces that sustain it. On critical issues affecting women, most Americans deny either that gender inequality is a serious problem or that it is one that they have a personal or political responsibility to address. In tracing this "no problem" problem, Speaking of Sex examines the most fundamental causes of women's disadvantages and the inadequacy of current public policy to combat them.
Although in the past quarter-century the United States has made major progress in addressing gender discrimination, women still face substantial obstacles in their private, public, and professional lives. On every significant measure of wealth, power, status, and security, women remain less advantaged than men. Deborah Rhode reveals the ways that the culture denies, discounts, or attempts to justify those inequalities. She shows that only by making inequality more visible can we devise an adequate strategy to confront it.
Speaking of Sex examines patterns of gender inequality across a wide array of social, legal, and public policy settings. Challenging conventional biological explanations for gender differences, Rhode explores the media images and childrearing practices that reinforce traditional gender stereotypes. On policies involving employment, divorce, custody, rape, pornography, domestic violence, sexual harassment, and reproductive choice, Speaking of Sex reveals how we continually overlook the gap between legal rights and daily experience. All too often, even Americans who condemn gender inequality in principle cannot see it in practice--in their own lives, homes, and work environments. In tracing these patterns, Rhode uncovers the deeply ingrained assumptions that obscure and perpetuate women's disadvantages.
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Informative, yet still lacking........2004-03-07
"Rhode breaks little new ground," wrote one critic (Katha Pollitt, for the Atlantic Monthly) about Deborah L. Rhode's 1997 book Speaking of Sex: The Denial of Gender Inequality. While she has admirable intentions, her writing has several shortcomings which destroy the effectiveness of her book, even for some of those who may agree with her. Rhode received her B.A. in 1974 and her J.D. in 1977, both from Yale. She has an extensive list of legal and political honors and positions. Currently, Rhode is on the faculty at Stanford University. Several of her books have met with moderate success. Given Rhode's qualifications, it is disappointing that the thesis of Speaking of Sex is weak, making for a poor read. Throughout the book, Rhode's arguments are riddled with contradiction. Possibly the most prominent weakness of this book is that it fails to call the reader to action. While the book has some merits, such as its basic intents and its informative value, it falls short of making the world a better place for women.
One of the most obvious downfalls of Speaking of Sex is its frequent self-contradiction. At times, Rhode seems to call for complete equality between the sexes, essentially producing a unisex society. At other times, she argues that female qualities should be celebrated in an effort to raise the status of her sex. In other examples, Rhode contradicts herself about the political aims of current feminism. "A way we avoid confronting gender inequality . . . is to individualize the issues," she explains. Only a few pages later, she complains, "We settle for equality in form rather than equality in fact." These clashing aims illustrate the contradictions, or perhaps conflicts, within the feminist movements of the past couple decades. Laws and some policies are changing and have been changed in favor of gender equality. Feminists haven't reached their ideal level of equality, but the social momentum is certainly moving in their favor.
Rhode's thesis in Speaking of Sex seems only to be "Gender-based discrimination exists." While knowledge of this fact may be important, it alone will not provide any solution. Awareness of gender inequality may not be widespread among the general population. However, the audience of this book will likely be predominantly feminist and progressive, leaving only the result of "preaching to the choir." This could very well result in a more passionate feminist movement, but with little action. If Rhodes would add direction to her discourse, it would carry much more potency, resulting in real improvement in gender equality. However, she rarely proposes solutions, leaving the reader unsure of how to handle the problem at hand.
In all fairness, Speaking of Sex has the potential to be valuable to certain audiences. Rhode covers a variety of women's issues ranging from domestic abuse to fairness in the workplace to abortion. Where she lacks in suggesting a course of action, she succeeds in providing an informative, comprehensive book on gender issues. To an uninformed reader, Speaking of Sex gives plenty of evidence that women do not have the same opportunities and status that men may enjoy. Even an informed audience may glean fodder for debate from the book.
Though Deborah L. Rhode's Speaking of Sex may inform some readers about the problems facing women in society today, it fails to provide a solid foundation for solving these problems. There may exist other books which are equally as informative that also propose solutions and lack contradictions. Such books would be an improvement upon Speaking of Sex for educated readers.
Eminently sensible, worth four and a half stars.......2002-04-29
Reading this sensible and intelligent book, and remembering how much I enjoyed Rhode's later book on the reform of the legal profession, I wondered why it is that such an eminently reasonable and articulate woman, who has provided such a thorough and well documented defense of feminism, should be so obscure in the world of public intellectuals. Rhode teaches at Stanford Law School, this book is published by Harvard University Press, and she does not write in a the complex academic jargon that all good journalists are trained to hate. Yet she is never called upon when journals like The New Republic or the New York Review of Books thinks it should have a female contributor.
Pity, because this is a good book. Let's start off with "Ideology and Biology." Rhode points out the flaws in biological explanations in sex differences. There are species of primates where the men tend the infants and the women forage for food. Media trumpet studies that point out gender differences, and ignore the many studies that find no difference or are ambiguous (especially on PMS). Over the last thirty years the differences in math scores between boys and girls has dropped dramatically. Those differences that do remain "have not taken account of even obvious influences such as the number of courses taken." "Many studies find no correlation between levels of testosterone and violence, hostility, or aggression." Much of the gender gap on physical strength is clearly related to our aesthetic desire for unhealthily thin women and our desire to encourage boys sports. "Men may be more likely to use speech patterns to establish control because they are more likely to occupy positions where they are IN control." "Beginning at Birth" starts off with how in 1918 one journal stated that boys should be clothed in pink and girls in blue, since it was obvious that pink was the more masculine colour. And we're off to how toys rigidly reinforce gender rules and unreasonable body ideals. If you think that it may simply be PC to worry that Barbie Dolls are unrealistic, consider the survey of 33,000 females. Three-quarters considered themselves too fat, though only a quarter were overweight and a third were underweight. "In recent surveys [of children's books], male characters come up with solutions five to eight times as often as females, and females care for children eight times as often as males." Then it's on to Media Images, about how the media euphemize rape and how incredibly snotty TIME magazine was towards feminism during the 1970s.
One cannot go into full detail about the next chapters, which look at sex and violence, about the problems of women's work, about family values (and in particular, welfare, child custody and teenage pregnancy). What one should point out is how well documented this book is, with 79 pages of notes to 250 pages of text. Moreover consider the depth of the sources. Rhode quotes anti-feminists in considerable detail. She has read very widely not only in her own chosen field of law, but also in science, education, media criticism, sociology and economics. The scholarship quoted in widespread and representative. She demonstrates in considerable detail that in rape, domestic violence, employment discrimination and sexual harrassment cases the presumption of innocence is definetely alive and well. One is struck at how difficult it is to prove these cases. Rhode quotes cases about how a woman who was maced, taunted and handcuffed to a toilet did not prove sexual harrassment. There is the (admittedly exceptional case) about the convicted murderer who got custody of his child over the lesbian mother. Or consider the open and shut case of discrimination at Price Waterhouse. Though ultimately successful it took seven years for Ann Hopkins to claim partnership at a firm where 98.9% of the partners were men, where she had billed more hours and brought more business than any other nominee that year, had gotten high ratings from her clients, and who was unfairly criticized as lacking in "charm," while similarly "abrasive" men had no problems getting promotions. We get a useful introduction to pay equity, where otherwise nurses would earn less than tree trimmers, schoolteachers earn less than state liquor store clerks and librarians earn less than street crossing guards. The book is not perfect. Katha Pollitt pointed out that the book is rather weak in providing political strategies, though if it were easy to think up it would already have happened. And comic books have provided more female heroes in recent years. But it is a book that everyone should read, and by a woman who should be a leading public intellectual if male centrists had the courage to listen to what she had to say.
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Gender, Managers, and Organizations (De Gruyter Studies in Organization)
Yvonne Due Billing , and
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This brief collection of cases is designed to help students and employees gain a hands-on understanding of gender issues in the workplace and to provide the necessary tools to handle those issues. Based on actual legal cases, nationally reported incidents, and personal interviews, the case studies in
Gender in the Workplace address the range and types of gender issues found in the workplace. Completely revised and updated, this
Second Edition provides a more international dimension to reinforce the varying impact of different cultures on gender issues.
New to the Second Edition:
- Develops critical thinking skills: A new “Critical Issues†section introduces students to cutting-edge thinking and thought-provoking research.
- Explores gender issues in a wide variety of organizations and in many cultures: Two new cases set outside the United States discuss how cultural settings can change the form of problems and the strategies for addressing them.
- Offers many new concrete examples of gender issues that arise in the workplace: New cases examine harassment in the military and “glass ceiling†issues as well as an updated look at gender stereotypes, promotion and benefits, career development, balancing work and family, sexual harassment, and much more!
Instructor’s Resources!
This helpful CD offers instructor notes, case overviews, learning objectives, teaching recommendations, and discussion questions for each chapter. Available upon request.
Intended Audience:
This text is intended as a supplement for courses in Management, Human Resources, Public Administration, Gender Studies, Industrial Psychology, Social Psychology, and Sociology of Work. It is also useful in consulting and training environments.
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Balanced Perspective.......2007-02-27
Great textbook to show all sides of gender in the workplace. Fresh approach and realistic, current issues are explored. Definitely one of the better texts I've read.
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