While gender equality has progressed in many sports since the second wave of the feminist movement in terms of womens inclusion, participation, and success, harness horse racing has been recalcitrant to change.Gender, Work, and Harness Racing: Fast Horses and Strong Women in Southwestern Pennsylvania investigates the stories of women involved in harness racing to expose how they use the uniqueness of their situation to work for positive change. With stirring accounts of the strong women who are surviving, and sometimes succeeding, in harness horse racing, Elizabeth Anne Larsens analysis provides insight for studies of gender and work, occupational sex segregation, and womens studies.

Elizabeth Anne Larsenis professor of sociology at California University of Pennsylvania.

Prologue: A Gendered Race
Chapter 1. The Harness Racing World
Chapter 2. Risks and Gratifications
Chapter 3. From a Family Harness Racing Business, or Not?
Chapter 4. Disrespect at the Track
Chapter 5. Working with Family
Chapter 6. Juggling Career and Domestic Demands
Chapter 7. Resisting Sexism at Work
Chapter 8. Women on Future Horse Racetracks
Appendix. A United States Timeline of Womens Experiences in Harness Racing and Other Sports