Legalizing gender inequality
Subtitle: courts, markets, and unequal pay for women in America
By: Robert L. Nelson, William P. Bridges.
Contributors: Bridges, William P.
Series: Structural analysis in the social sciences ;; 16
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
Subjects: Pay equity -- Law and legislation -- United States.; Pay equity -- United States.
Description: "Equal pay for men and women in the work force suffered a series of defeats in U.S. courts during the 1970s and 1980s and became the object of attack by a conservative administration and conventional economic wisdom. Yet the issue persists, unsolved, and continues to attract scholarly and popular attention.

Building upon a new generation of research about institutions and the social construction of the market, the authors of Legalizing Gender Inequality challenge the existing theories of gender-based pay inequality and present a new, more realistic way to analyze the relationship between the market, pay differentials, and the law."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-384) and index.