Chapter 81: Getting a Job.

Chapter 81 of the book "Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective," Third Edition, edited by David B. Grusky, Manwai C. Ku, and Szonja Szelényi is presented. It explores the notion that working women in the U.S. are accounted for most of gender gap in wages. It highlights wage penalty for motherhood, productivity and discrimination and a theoritical evaluation which claimed motherhood as a cause for gender discrimination in the workplace.