Race, Gender, And Discrimination At Work

Race, Gender, and Discrimination at Work is a review of the determinants of wage and employment discrimination by firms against minorities and women. Aimed at sociology undergraduates, the book assumes no pre-existing social scientific knowledge.

Samuel Cohnis a Sociologist of race and gender at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Author of Occupational Sex-typing, winner of the American Sociological Association's Jessie Barnard Award in 1989 for Best Book on the Sociology of Gender. He is also the co-author (with Mark Fossett) of The Geography of Racial Exclusion.

1 Has the Problem of Inequality Gone Away?, 2 Discrimination and Market Competition, 3 What Determines If a Job Is Male or Female?, 4 Why Are Women Confined to Low-Status Jobs?, 5 Why Are Women Paid Less Than Men?, 6 Why Are Blacks More Likely to Be Unemployed Than Are Whites?, 7 Twenty-Six Things to Remember About Discrimination