Title: Speaking of sex
First published: 1997
Description: 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.
Subjects: Sex role in the work environment, Sex discrimination against women, Equal pay for equal work, Sex discrimination in education, Work and family, Equality, Women, social conditions, Women, legal status, laws, etc., New York Times reviewed, Sekseverschillen
Places: United States
LC classification: HQ1237.5.U6 R48 1997