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The Unfinished Revolution - Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family (Paperback)
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The Unfinished Revolution - Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family (Paperback)
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In the controversial public debate over modern American families,
the vast changes in family life--the rise of single, two-paycheck,
and same-sex parents--have often been blamed for declining morality
and unhappy children. Drawing upon pioneering research with the
children of the gender revolution, Kathleen Gerson reveals that it
is not a lack of "family values," but rigid social and economic
forces that make it difficult to have a vibrant and committed
family and work life.
Despite the entrance of women into the workforce and the blurring
of once clearly defined gender boundaries, men and women live in a
world where the demands of balancing parenting and work, autonomy
and commitment, time and money are left largely unresolved. Gerson
finds that while an overwhelming majority of young men and women
see an egalitarian balance within committed relationships as the
ideal, today's social and economic realities remain based on
conventional--and now obsolete--distinctions between breadwinning
and caretaking. In this equity vacuum, men and women develop
conflicting strategies, with women stressing self-reliance and men
seeking a new traditionalism.
With compassion for all perspectives, Gerson argues that whether
one decides to give in to traditionally imbalanced relationships or
to avoid marriage altogether, these approaches are second-best
responses, not personal preferences or inherent attributes, and
they will shift if new options can be created to help people
achieve their egalitarian aspirations. The Unfinished Revolution
offers clear recommendations for the kinds of workplace and
community changes that would best bring about a more egalitarian
family life--a new flexibility at work and at home that benefits
families, encourages a thriving economy, and helps women and men
integrate love and work.
Praise for the Hardcover:
"Over the past three decades, social change has blown apart the
old-fashioned ideal of the nuclear family--and Gerson has set out
to map where the pieces have landed."
--New York Post
"Valuable for the abundance and candor of the testimony from this
unmoored generation pioneering through radically altered
conceptions of personal and professional life."
--Publishers Weekly
"This is not a battle that can be won with legal challenges or
legislation. Yes, it would undoubtedly be greatly aided by the
passage of major social policies such as universal child care. But
at its core, this is a fight that plays out within homes and
between partners. And as Gerson's research makes clear, the fight
has not changed all that dramatically in the past 30 years." --The
American Prospect
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