TY - BOOK ID - 5378054 TI - Selling women short : gender inequality on Wall Street PY - 2006 SN - 9780691126432 0691126437 0691166722 9786613134783 1400840791 1283134780 9781400840793 9781283134781 PB - Princeton : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Women stockbrokers KW - Equal pay for equal work KW - Sex discrimination in employment KW - Agentes de change KW - Egalité de rémunération KW - Discrimination sexuelle dans l'emploi KW - Egalité de rémunération KW - Employment (Economic theory) KW - Sex role in the work environment KW - Sexual division of labor KW - Women KW - Discrimination in employment KW - Wages KW - Stockbrokers KW - Women in finance KW - Employment UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5378054 AB - Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990's, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. Selling Women Short is a powerful new indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug. Wall Street is supposed to be a citadel of pure economics, paying for performance and evaluating performance objectively. People with similar qualifications and performance should receive similar pay, regardless of gender. They don't. Comparing the experiences of men and women who began their careers on Wall Street in the late 1990's, Louise Roth finds not only that women earn an average of 29 percent less but also that they are shunted into less lucrative career paths, are not promoted, and are denied the best clients. Selling Women Short reveals the subtle structural discrimination that occurs when the unconscious biases of managers, coworkers, and clients influence performance evaluations, work distribution, and pay. In their own words, Wall Street workers describe how factors such as the preference to associate with those of the same gender contribute to systematic inequality. Revealing how the very systems that Wall Street established ostensibly to combat discrimination promote inequality, Selling Women Short closes with Roth's frank advice on how to tackle the problem, from introducing more tangible performance criteria to curbing gender-stereotypical client entertaining activities. Above all, firms could stop pretending that market forces lead to fair and unbiased outcomes. They don't. ER -