Gender, age and inequality in the professions /

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Imprint:New York : London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Description:xv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge studies in gender and organizations
Routledge studies in gender and organizations.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11956882
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Other authors / contributors:Choroszewicz, Marta, editor.
Adams, Tracey Lynn, 1966- editor.
ISBN:9780815358572
0815358571
9781351052467 (ebook)
9781351052443 (ePub ebook)
9781351052450 (PDF ebook)
9781351052436 (Mobipocket ebook)
Notes:Includes index.
Other form:ebook version : 9781351052443
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: themes, objectives and theoretical perspectives / Marta Choroszewicz and Tracey L. Adams
  • Health professions
  • Early-career doctors and in/justice in work : the invisibility of gender in a "male" profession / Antero Olakivi and Sirpa Wrede
  • "Not that many female med students want to pursue surgery" : gender, ethnicity and the life course in medical students' specialty choices / Tracey L. Adams and Eugena Kwon
  • Intergenerational dynamics among women and men in nursing / Marci D. Cottingham and Janette S. Dill
  • "Male" ficence or "miss" understandings? : exploring the relationship between gender, young healthcare professionals, social media, and professionalism / Patricia Neville
  • The legal professions
  • Launching careers in law: entry to first jobs after law school / Fiona Kay
  • Do gender regimes matter?: converging and diverging career prospects among young French and Swiss lawyers / Isabel Boni-Le Goff, Nicky Le Feuvre, Grégoire Mallard, Eléonore Lépinard & Sandrine Morel
  • A life course approach to workplace discrimination and employment : evidence from a U.S. national sample of women and men lawyers / Gabriele Plickert
  • Fathers in private law practice in Finland : reconciling work and family life for male lawyers from different generations / Marta Choroszewicz
  • Further professions
  • 40 years of gender inequality among men and women in high-prestige occupations : does the story differ among the young? / Charlotta Magnusson and Magnus Nermo
  • Age-gender relations in the academic profession : putting the challenges of early career academics into context / Jeff Hearn and Liisa Husu
  • A young man's game : age and gender in technology jobs / Christianne Marie Corbett
  • Women in engineering : experiences of discrimination across age cohort / Tracey L. Adams
  • Conclusions
  • Conclusion: findings, future research and policy recommendations / Tracey L. Adams and Marta Choroszewicz
  • Index.