| Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor Contributor(s): Gornick, Janet C. (Editor), Meyers, Marcia K. (Editor), Bergmann, Barbara (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 184467326X ISBN-13: 9781844673261 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: An urgent call to arms for real-world solutions to gender inequality: The latest volume in the acclaimed "Real Utopias Project." The age of the male breadwinner and the female caregiver has passed, but gender inequality is as persistent as ever. This major new work intervenes in today's debates on domestic inequality, examining tensions between work and family life for women. "Gender Inequality" explores class disparity, who should care for infants, and fatherhood in a dual-earner family. Surveying the design of public institutions that could significantly mitigate these pressures, contributors including Nancy Folbre, Janet Gornick, and Marcia Meyers offer useful, thought-provoking prescriptions for real change. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family |
| Dewey: 305.42 |
| Series: Real Utopias Project |
| Physical Information: 1.25" H x 6.39" W x 9.29" (1.75 lbs) 466 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the labor market and workplace, anti-discrimination rules, affirmative action policies, and pay equity procedures exercise a direct effect on gender relations. But what can be done to influence the ways that men and women allocate tasks and responsibilities at home? In Gender Equality, Volume VI in the Real Utopias series, social scientists Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers propose a set of policies--paid family leave provisions, working time regulations, and early childhood education and care--designed to foster more egalitarian family divisions of labor by strengthening men's ties at home and women's attachment to paid work. Their policy proposal is followed by a series of commentaries--both critical and supportive--from a group of distinguished scholars, and a concluding essay in which Gornick and Meyers respond to a debate that is a timely and valuable contribution to egalitarian politics. |