Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II

This monograph analyzes  the process of gender segregated work in both the electrical and the automobile industries in the United States during Wilf War II. I examines  the supplies of male and female labor available to each, the varying degrees of labor-intensive work, the proportion of labor costs to total costs, and the extent of male resistance to female entry into the industry before, during, and after the war. In this way the book offers a historically grounded and detailed examination of the evolution, function, and reproduction of job segregation by sex in wartime.