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Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 2002, Vol 47(6), 715–717. Reviews Handbook of Gender and Work, edited by Gary N. Powell (see record 1999–04018–000). Powell is credited with doing an excellent job. The authors are well versed in their subject matters, a wide diversity of relevant topics is covered, and the writers have met the editor's challenge not only to coherently present the state of the art in their particular field, but also to describe ways of pursuing fruitful avenues of future research. In addition, chapter authors acknowledge the controversies, debates, and disagreements within their specialty. Thus, the notion of a seamless, smooth, coherent, and progressive field of knowledge production is challenged throughout the volume, and the rough but robust activities of scholars in these diverse areas are recognized. Overall, the handbook is described as an extremely useful, easily accessible resource for those doing empirical work in the area of gender and work. Unfortunately, but customarily, the term gender is fairly restricted as a reference to women. There are almost no chapters in which the special interests or needs of men are put forth. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)