This comprehensive and carefully organized collection provides an
overview of the relationship between gender and economic
stratification in seven industrialized countries. Everywhere, as a
Polish commentator notes, `men have too much power, and women too
much work.' Nevertheless, these studies reveal large differences in
the circumstances of women in different countries and help to
illuminate the several developments in the labor market, the
family, and public policy which explain the extreme feminization of
poverty in the United States. Frances Fox Piven, City University of
New York Lucid, careful, and systematic, the book builds a
compelling explanation for the needless impoverishment experienced
by millions of American women and offers a sensible, realistic
agenda for its reduction. Michael B. Katz, University of
Pennsylvania This study asks whether the feminization of poverty,
the tendency of women and their families to become the majority of
the poor, is unique to the United States, where the phenomenon was
first discovered. Seven industrialized nations, both capitalist and
socialist, with different degrees of commitment to social welfare
are compared: Canada, Japan, France, Sweden, Poland, the Soviet
Union, and the United States. In each of the countries the authors
analyze information about women, labor market conditions,
equalization policies, social welfare programs, and demographic
variables such as the rates of divorce and single parenthood.
According to Goldberg and Kremen, it is possible to predict the
feminization of poverty when three conditions are present: (1)
insufficient efforts to reduce work place and wage inequities for
women; (2) the absence or ineffectiveness of social welfare
programs which can redress the cost, both economic and personal, of
the dual role that women have assumed in industrialized societies;
and (3) the presence of increasing rates of divorce and single
motherhood. An array of labor market and social welfare programs in
use in the six other industrialized nations are then reviewed by
the authors for possible adaptation in the United States. This
important work will be a valuable resource for scholars across the
academic and professional disciplines of political science,
sociology, economics, social work, and women's studies.
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