Synopses & Reviews
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.
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An extremely stimulating and provocative debate.
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"With keen insight and passion, Gornick and Meyers show why and how ‘dual-earner/dual-caregiver’ arrangements are essential for the well-being of post-industrial societies… A wonderful book that is must-reading for experts, policymakers, and caring citizens alike." Kathleen Gerson
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The age of the male breadwinner and the female caregiver has passed, but gender inequality is as persistent as ever. This major new work intervenes in today's debates on domestic inequality, examining tensions between work and family life for women.
Gender Equalityexplores class disparity, who should care for infants, and fatherhood in a dual-earner family. Surveying the design of public institutions that could significantly mitigate these pressures, contributors including Nancy Folbre, Janet Gornick, and Marcia Meyers offer useful, thought-provoking prescriptions for real change.
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An urgent call to arms for real-world solutions to gender inequality: The latest volume in the acclaimed Real Utopias Project.
About the Author
Janet C. Gornickis Professor of political science and Sociology at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY).
Marcia K. Meyersis Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs at the University of Washington.
Series editor of Verso"s Real Utopias Project, Erik Olin Wright, is Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin.