Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce

Susan Bisom-Rapp, Malcolm Sargeant (Middlesex University, London)

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Cambridge University Press
20 October 2016

Social discrimination; Gender studies: women; Gender & the law; Discrimination in employment law

Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce fills a gap in the literature on discrimination and disadvantage suffered by women at work by focusing on the inadequacies of the current law and the need for a new holistic approach. Each stage of the working life cycle for women is examined with a critical consideration of how the law attempts to address the problems that inhibit women's labour force participation. By using their model of lifetime disadvantage, the authors show how the law adopts an incremental and disjointed approach to resolving the challenges, and argue that a more holistic orientation towards eliminating women's discrimination and disadvantage is required before true gender equality can be achieved. Using the concept of resilience from vulnerability theory, the authors advocate a reconfigured workplace that acknowledges yet transcends gender.

By: Susan Bisom-Rapp, Malcolm Sargeant (Middlesex University, London)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9781107123533
ISBN 10: 1107123534
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 20 October 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Lifetime disadvantage; 2. Education and training; 3. Stereotyping and gender discrimination; 4. Caregiving and career outcomes; 5. Glass ceilings and pay inequality; 6. Occupational segregation and non-standard working; 7. Pensions and retirement; 8. Beyond lifetime disadvantage.

Susan Bisom-Rapp is Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, California. She is a member of the American Law Institute and has published widely on employee rights and discrimination in employment. Malcolm Sargeant is Professor of Labour Law at Middlesex University. He has researched and written widely on employment and discrimination law issues.

Reviews for Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce

'Drawing together this wide a range of data and to present it in such an accessible way is a fine achievement. The wealth of data offered on women's lifetime disadvantage, all of it drawn from a range of sources from the last five or six years, and demonstrating trends in discrimination and working patterns over the past 50 years, is extremely valuable to any one doing research into the impact of gender discrimination. ... [a] thorough, compelling, and valuable book.' Richard Poole, Feminist Legal Studies 'Bisom-Rapp and Sargeant use a model of lifetime disadvantage to argue that antidiscrimination law adopts an incremental and disjointed approach to resolving the challenges of gender discrimination, and conclude that a more holistic orientation toward eliminating women's discrimination and disadvantage is required before true gender equality can be achieved.' Law and Social Inquiry