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.

IF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE YOU WERE EITHER TOO YOUNG OR TOO OLD, THEN YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK AND HELP WITH THE PROCESS OF ELIMINATING AGE, THE NUMBER. . THIS BOOK GIVES PROOF THAT BY ELIMINATING AGE AND REPLACING IT WITH STAGES, WE MAY HAVE A SOLUTION FOR: THE RECOGNITION OF THE UNBORN A TREATMENT FOR HYPER KIDS A GREATER PREPARATION FOR A RESPONSIBLE ADULT THE CHOICE TO REMAIN WITH AN EMPLOYER LONGER WITHOUT THE AGE FACTOR A SOLUTION TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY CRISIS OF THE FUTURE RETIREMENT VIEWED AS A BLESSING WHEN A PERSON DECIDES IT IS TIME TO RETIRE A CONTINUING LIFE WHEN THE BODY DIES. I VIEW AGE LIKE A DISEASE AND I BELIEVE THAT, LIKE OTHER DESEASES, THIS ONE CAN BE CURED. THE REMEDY IS TO ELIMINATE THE NUMBER AND REPLACE IT WITH STAGES IN ONE'S LIFE.