Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to learn more

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Gender & Society
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Blair-Loy, M.
Right arrow Articles by Jacobs, J. A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Globalization, Work Hours, And The Care Deficit Among Stockbrokers

Mary Blair-Loy

Washington State University

Jerry A. Jacobs

University of Pennsylvania

The authors study U.S. stockbrokers, workers directly affected by the technological and economic forces of globalization. Drawing on interviews with 61 brokers and managers in four firms, they find that competition from electronic communication networks and international markets has increased the pace of work for stockbrokers, spurred online and after-hours trading, and may prompt the major stock exchanges to establish later trading sessions known as extended-hours trading. These events are lengthening already long working days for brokers and contributing to a deficit of the time and energy they have to care for their families. These developments also reinforce gender inequality at home and in the workplace. The authors also find an alternative response to this globalization: The discount firm model, which creates the conditions for more gender balance in jobs and careers and thus the possibility for greater gender balance in the provision of care.

Key Words: work • family • gender • globalization • stockbrokers • securities

Gender & Society, Vol. 17, No. 2, 230-249 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0891243202250777
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Politics SocietyHome page
B. Burgoon and D. Raess
Globalization and Working Time: Working Hours and Flexibility in Germany
Politics Society, December 1, 2009; 37(4): 554 - 575.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Work and OccupationsHome page
M. Blair-Loy
Work Without End?: Scheduling Flexibility and Work-to-Family Conflict Among Stockbrokers
Work and Occupations, November 1, 2009; 36(4): 279 - 317.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 The American Review of Public AdministrationHome page
M. K. Feeney and B. Bozeman
Staying Late: Comparing Work Hours in Public and Nonprofit Sectors
The American Review of Public Administration, September 1, 2009; 39(5): 459 - 477.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Work and OccupationsHome page
A. S. Wharton, S. Chivers, and M. Blair-Loy
Use of Formal and Informal Work-Family Policies on the Digital Assembly Line
Work and Occupations, August 1, 2008; 35(3): 327 - 350.
[Abstract] [PDF]