Worker control: The bases of women's support

A vast amount of research on women and work indicates that women have not g ained parity with men in the paid workforce. Workplace democracy is particu larly relevant for women. I employ US national survey data from 1991 to ana lyze women's support for worker control over workplace decision-making. The nature of this support is hypothesized using four branches of feminist the ory. An analysis of the gender gap in attitudes is performed and then I inc orporate logistic regression to test for cleavages in women's attitudes. Th e lack of consistency across the items suggests that these specific work is sues are not reflective of a larger, generalized predisposition to workplac e democracy. I conclude by considering the relationship between women and t he labor movement. Union-supported worker participation is most likely to i mprove women's working conditions.