Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor

Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor
ISBN-10
1844673251
ISBN-13
9781844673254
Series
Gender Equality
Category
Social Science
Pages
481
Language
English
Published
2009-08-03
Publisher
Verso Books
Authors
Janet C. Gornick, Marcia K. Meyers

Description

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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