Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor - Paperback
Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor - Paperback
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by Janet C. Gornick (Editor), Marcia K. Meyers (Editor), Barbara Bergmann (Contribution by)
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.Author Biography
Janet C. Gornick is Professor of political science and Sociology at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY).
Marcia K. Meyers is Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs at the University of Washington. Erik Olin Wright is Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of many books, including Classes, Interrogating Inequality, Class Counts, Deepening Democracy (with Archon Fung), and Envisioning Real Utopias. For more information on Envisioning Real Utopias and the Real Utopias project, and to access book content, please visit realutopias.org (site in progress).Materials + Care
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