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Sociology 699F: Gender & Social Change 

Readings

Overviews

Huber, Joan. 1990. "Macro-Micro Links in Gender Stratification." American Sociological Review 55(February): 1-10. JSTOR [HM1.A75] notes

Mason, Karen Oppenheim. 1986. "The Status of Women: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Demographic Studies." Sociological Forum 1(Spring): 284-300. JSTOR [HM1.S6767] notes

Market Forces

Oppenheimer, Valerie K. 1973. "Demographic Influence on Female Employment and the Status of Women." American Journal of Sociology 78(January): 946-961. Reprinted as pp. 184-199 in Joan Huber (ed.), Changing Women in a Changing Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. JSTOR [HM1.A7] notes

Smith, James P. and Michael P. Ward. 1985. "Time-Series Growth in the Female Labor Force." Journal of Labor Economics 3(January): S59-90. JSTOR [HS4801.J678] notes

Human Capital

Jacobs, Jerry A. 1995. "Gender and Academic Specialties: Trends among Recipients of College Degrees in the 1980s." Sociology of Education 68(April): 81-98. JSTOR [L11.J76]

Mincer, Jacob and Solomon Polachek. 1974. "Family Investments in Human Capital: Earnings of Women." Journal of Political Economy 82: S76-S108. JSTOR [HB1.J7]

Development

Forsythe, Nancy, Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Valerie Durrant. 2000. "Gender Inequalities and Economic Growth: A Longitudinal Evaluation." Economic Development and Cultural Change 48(April): 573-617. pdf file [HC10.C453] notes

Ramirez, Francisco, Yasemin Soysal, and Susanne Shanahan. 1997. "The Changing Logic of Politial Citizenship: Cross-national Acquisition of Women's Suffrage Rights, 1890 to 1990." American Sociological Review 62(October): 735-745. JSTOR or pdf file [HM1.A75] notes

Family and technology

Kishor, Sunita. 1993. "May God Give Sons to All: Gender and Child Mortality in India." American Sociological Review 58(April): 247-265. JSTOR [HM1.A75] notes

Goldin, Claudia and Lawrence F. Katz. 2002. "The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions." Journal of Political Economy 110(August): 730-770. online [HB1.J7] notes

Social Movements

Ferree, Myra Marx. 1974. "A Woman for President? Changing Responses: 1958-1972." Public Opinion Quarterly 38(Fall): 390-399. JSTOR [HM261.A1P8] notes

Organizational

Bridges, William P. and Robert L. Nelson. 1989. "Markets in Hierarchies: Organizational and Market Influences on Gender Inequality in a State Pay System." American Journal of Sociology 95(November): 616-658. JSTOR [HM1.A7] notes

Multilevel analyses

Laura Moore and Reeve Vanneman. (forthcoming) "Context Matters: Proportion Fundamentalist Effects on Gender Attitudes." Social Forces pdf file notes

Batalova, Jeanne A. and Philip N. Cohen. 2002. "Premarital Cohabitation and Housework: Couples in Cross-National Perspective." Journal of Marriage and Family 64 (August): 743-755. pdf file notes

Cotter, David A., JoAnn M. DeFiore, Joan M. Hermsen, Brenda Marsteller Kowalewski, and Reeve Vanneman. 1997. "All Women Benefit: The Macro-level Effect of Occupational Integration on Gender Earnings Equality." American Sociological Review 62(October): 714-734. JSTOR [HM1.A75] notes


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