This paper argues that an interdisciplinary approach is essential. It examines the insights into factors facilitating or hindering workplace diversity that can be garnered by combining perspectives from our respective disciplines. We compare explanations from psychology and economics regarding why workplace inequities have persisted, laying the groundwork for understanding why approaches developed to address the inequities have failed and what may be necessary to more successfully address them in the future. We contend that each perspective without the other is incomplete and ineffective. We argue for a wider examination of how research in psychology can be linked in an interdisciplinary fashion with economic analyses to assist in developing policies and shaping processes to promote effective workforce diversity.
Policies provide a necessary infrastructure that establishes target goals and criteria for success.
This book examines the effect of state policies on women's roles in the economy. At the most concrete level it investigates the relative lack of response of women's labor force activity rates to export-led development in the Republic of Ireland. As a broader level, it provides critical insights into current labor market debates regarding the causes of women's subordination and the efficacy of state policies designed to alleviate them. The book shows how the state, in addition to and interactively with the workplace and household, can maintain gender inequality. In so doing, Pyle demonstrates the usefulness of a revitalized and broader structural approach to feminist analysis.