Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844673251
• ISBN13: 9781844673254
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"