Gender and Organizations Reading List

But a small selection:

Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1977. Men and Women of the Corporation. New York: Basic Books.

Jacobs, Jerry. 1989. Revolving Doors: Sex Segregation and Women’s Careers. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Hochschild, Arlie Russell. 1989. The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. New York: Avon Books.

England, Paula. 1992. Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

Spain, Daphne, and Suzanne M. Bianchi. 1996. Balancing Act: Motherhood, Marriage, and Employment among American Women. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Reskin, Barbara F., Debra B. McBrier, and Julie A. Kmec. 1999. The determinants and consequences of workplace sex and race composition. In Karen S. Cook., ed., Annual Review of Sociology, 25: 235-261.

Nelson, Robert L., and William P. Bridges. 1999. Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women in the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bielby, William T., and James N. Baron. 1986. Men and women at work: Sex segregation and statistical discrimination. American Journal of Sociology, 91: 759-799.

Wharton, Amy S., and James N. Baron. 1987. So happy together? The psychological impact of gender segregation on women at work. American Sociological Review, 52: 574-587.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey, and Alison Davis-Blake. 1987. The effect of the proportion of women on salaries: The case of college administrators. Administrative Science Quarterly, 32: 1-24.

Williams, Christine L. 1989. Gender Differences at Work: Women and Men in Nontraditional Occupations. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Bernhardt, Annette, Martina Morris, and Mark S. Handcock. 1995. Women’s gains or men’s losses? A closer look at the shrinking gender gap in earnings. American Journal of Sociology, 101: 302-328.

Petersen, Trond, and Laurie A. Morgan. 1995. Separate and unequal: Occupation-establishment sex segregation and the gender wage gap. American Journal of Sociology, 101: 329-365.

Petersen, Trond, and Ishak Saporta. 2004. The opportunity structure for discrimination. American Journal of Sociology, 109: 852-901.

Ridgeway, Cecelia. 1997. Interaction and the conservation of gender inequality: Considering employment. American Sociological Review, 62: 218-235.

Reskin, Barbara F., and Debra Branch McBrier. 2000. Why not ascription? Organizations’ employment of male and female managers. American Sociological Review, 65: 210-233.

Correll, Shelley J. 2004. Constraints into preferences: Gender, status, and emerging career aspirations. American Sociological Review, 69: 93-113.

Correll, Shelley J., Stephen Benard, and In Paik. 2007. Getting a job: Is there a motherhood penalty? American Journal of Sociology, 112: 1297-1338.