Alice Abel Kemp
Biographic Data
| ID | 3751101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Abel Kemp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice Abel |
| FAMILY NAME | Kemp |
| SIGNATURE | KEMP A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Orleans |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Women and the Politics of Class
Brenner writes with a clarity of purpose that arises out of a lifetime of participation in the struggles of working-class women. A major voice on the American left.--Mike Davis, May 2000 Is there a future for feminism? The debate over the direction and politics of the women's movement has been joined recently by post-feminists and anti-feminists, in addition to competing feminist perspectives. In Women and the Politics of Class, Johanna Brenner o…
Is Welfare Reform Working? A Study of the Effects of Sanctions on Families Receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
This research provides a preliminary descriptive analysis of the impact of new welfare sanctions on recipients living in a southern metropolitan region. The data from this phone survey indicate that many families report considerable hardship no matter why they exited from welfare. Compared to those who left voluntarily, those who were sanctioned off welfare were significantly different in terms of having unmet medical needs, going without food, a…
Paradigm Shifts in Family Sociology? Evidence From Three Decades of Family Textbooks
This article explores paradigm shifts in family sociology from the 1960s to the 1990s using a thematic content analysis of 7 multiple-edition texts. Two competing views on theoretical developments are examined. David Cheal claims that challenges posed to structural functionalist hegemony resulted in theoretical pluralism and an end to this hegemony. Dorothy Smith argues that Parson's theoretical assumptions are so deeply embedded in the discourse…
Reconceptualizing Women's Work
The types of work performed by women receiving public assistance are examined. Research on women's work often neglects the labor of poor women, reinforcing the view that women receiving welfare do not work. This perspective is challenged with focus group and interview data from welfare recipients in New Orleans, Louisiana. We conclude that within the restrictions of public assistance, poor women are engaging in three types of work: domestic work …
A Woman's Wage
Estimating sex discrimination in professional occupations with the dictionary of occupational titles
Although women have gained entrance into some of the top professional occupations, they appear to have achieved few economic gains from this progress. The extensive occupational segregation existing between men and women in all occupations handicaps investigations of the sources of this persistent inequality. This article proposes an exploratory method for identifying occupations containing comparable work and presents an analysis of male‐female …
Feminization of the Labor Force
Structural Social Inequality
American Women and Political Participation
Gender differences in labor market wages
Women earn less than men. The reason may be due to either industrial segmentation or occupational segregation or both according to the current research. Researches focusing on one structure tend to neglect the other or to use an inadequate representation. This article examines the simultaneous impact of industrial sector and gender on imputed wages with labor force incumbents in four detailed occupations. These occupations are from a set identifi…
Modern Sexism
The Labor Supply of Female Heads of Household
This paper compares a model of labor supply for female heads of household, male heads, and wives. Not only have female-headed households increased significantly as a proportion of all households in recent years, but these households are also more likely to be in poverty than are other households. Yet, the determinants of labor supply for this increasingly important demographic group still are largely unknown. Analyses are performed on a sample of…
Equal Work, Unequal Pay
Despite legislative and legal aids designed to reduce the persistent earnings inequality between employed males and females, there is little evidence of improvement over the past 40 years. One difficulty with research on this topic has been the inability to distinguish gender discrimination-unequal pay for equal work-from earnings differences due to dissimilar work. This article describes an empirical method to identify work-similar occupations u…
The excluded ones
Occupational segregation is now one of the most popular explanations for the persistent male‐female gap in labor market earnings. The fact that females are employed in a fewer number of occupations than males are is intended to “explain” why females’ earnings are lower than males’. Following Blau and Jusenius (1976), this paper argues that the simple fact of occupational segregation becomes a justification for male‐female inequality since it is j…
Women and the Politics of Class
Brenner writes with a clarity of purpose that arises out of a lifetime of participation in the struggles of working-class women. A major voice on the American left.--Mike Davis, May 2000 Is there a future for feminism? The debate over the direction and politics of the women's movement has been joined recently by post-feminists and anti-feminists, in addition to competing feminist perspectives. In Women and the Politics of Class, Johanna Brenner o…
Paradigm Shifts in Family Sociology? Evidence From Three Decades of Family Textbooks
This article explores paradigm shifts in family sociology from the 1960s to the 1990s using a thematic content analysis of 7 multiple-edition texts. Two competing views on theoretical developments are examined. David Cheal claims that challenges posed to structural functionalist hegemony resulted in theoretical pluralism and an end to this hegemony. Dorothy Smith argues that Parson's theoretical assumptions are so deeply embedded in the discourse…
Is Welfare Reform Working? A Study of the Effects of Sanctions on Families Receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
This research provides a preliminary descriptive analysis of the impact of new welfare sanctions on recipients living in a southern metropolitan region. The data from this phone survey indicate that many families report considerable hardship no matter why they exited from welfare. Compared to those who left voluntarily, those who were sanctioned off welfare were significantly different in terms of having unmet medical needs, going without food, a…
The Labor Supply of Female Heads of Household
This paper compares a model of labor supply for female heads of household, male heads, and wives. Not only have female-headed households increased significantly as a proportion of all households in recent years, but these households are also more likely to be in poverty than are other households. Yet, the determinants of labor supply for this increasingly important demographic group still are largely unknown. Analyses are performed on a sample of…
Equal Work, Unequal Pay
Despite legislative and legal aids designed to reduce the persistent earnings inequality between employed males and females, there is little evidence of improvement over the past 40 years. One difficulty with research on this topic has been the inability to distinguish gender discrimination-unequal pay for equal work-from earnings differences due to dissimilar work. This article describes an empirical method to identify work-similar occupations u…
The excluded ones
Occupational segregation is now one of the most popular explanations for the persistent male‐female gap in labor market earnings. The fact that females are employed in a fewer number of occupations than males are is intended to “explain” why females’ earnings are lower than males’. Following Blau and Jusenius (1976), this paper argues that the simple fact of occupational segregation becomes a justification for male‐female inequality since it is j…
Equal Work, Unequal Pay
Despite legislative and legal aids designed to reduce the persistent earnings inequality between employed males and females, there is little evidence of improvement over the past 40 years. One difficulty with research on this topic has been the inability to distinguish gender discrimination-unequal pay for equal work-from earnings differences due to dissimilar work. This article describes an empirical method to identify work-similar occupations u…
Gender differences in labor market wages
Women earn less than men. The reason may be due to either industrial segmentation or occupational segregation or both according to the current research. Researches focusing on one structure tend to neglect the other or to use an inadequate representation. This article examines the simultaneous impact of industrial sector and gender on imputed wages with labor force incumbents in four detailed occupations. These occupations are from a set identifi…
Modern Sexism
The Labor Supply of Female Heads of Household
This paper compares a model of labor supply for female heads of household, male heads, and wives. Not only have female-headed households increased significantly as a proportion of all households in recent years, but these households are also more likely to be in poverty than are other households. Yet, the determinants of labor supply for this increasingly important demographic group still are largely unknown. Analyses are performed on a sample of…
American Women and Political Participation
Structural Social Inequality
Estimating sex discrimination in professional occupations with the dictionary of occupational titles
Although women have gained entrance into some of the top professional occupations, they appear to have achieved few economic gains from this progress. The extensive occupational segregation existing between men and women in all occupations handicaps investigations of the sources of this persistent inequality. This article proposes an exploratory method for identifying occupations containing comparable work and presents an analysis of male‐female …
Feminization of the Labor Force
A Woman's Wage
Reconceptualizing Women's Work
The types of work performed by women receiving public assistance are examined. Research on women's work often neglects the labor of poor women, reinforcing the view that women receiving welfare do not work. This perspective is challenged with focus group and interview data from welfare recipients in New Orleans, Louisiana. We conclude that within the restrictions of public assistance, poor women are engaging in three types of work: domestic work …
Paradigm Shifts in Family Sociology? Evidence From Three Decades of Family Textbooks
This article explores paradigm shifts in family sociology from the 1960s to the 1990s using a thematic content analysis of 7 multiple-edition texts. Two competing views on theoretical developments are examined. David Cheal claims that challenges posed to structural functionalist hegemony resulted in theoretical pluralism and an end to this hegemony. Dorothy Smith argues that Parson's theoretical assumptions are so deeply embedded in the discourse…
Is Welfare Reform Working? A Study of the Effects of Sanctions on Families Receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
This research provides a preliminary descriptive analysis of the impact of new welfare sanctions on recipients living in a southern metropolitan region. The data from this phone survey indicate that many families report considerable hardship no matter why they exited from welfare. Compared to those who left voluntarily, those who were sanctioned off welfare were significantly different in terms of having unmet medical needs, going without food, a…
Women and the Politics of Class
Brenner writes with a clarity of purpose that arises out of a lifetime of participation in the struggles of working-class women. A major voice on the American left.--Mike Davis, May 2000 Is there a future for feminism? The debate over the direction and politics of the women's movement has been joined recently by post-feminists and anti-feminists, in addition to competing feminist perspectives. In Women and the Politics of Class, Johanna Brenner o…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)