Gender Equality - Transforming Family Divisions of Labor (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Real Utopias Project
Release date:	August 2009
First published:	August 2009
Editors:	Janet C. Gornick • Marcia K. Meyers
Contributors:	Ann Orloff • Barbara Bergmann • Cameron MacDonald • Harry Brighouse • Heidi Hartmann • Johanna Brenner • Kathrin Zippel • Kimberly Morgan
Dimensions:	234 x 155 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	474
ISBN-13:	978-1-84467-325-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84467-325-1
Barcode:	9781844673254

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