Gender Equality - Transforming Family Divisions of Labor

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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 Inequality explores 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. Zusammenfassung The age of the male breadwinner and the female caregiver has passed! but gender inequality is as persistent as ever. This work intervenes in debates on domestic inequality! examining tensions between work and family life for women. It explores class disparity! who should care for infants! and fatherhood in a dual-earner family.

Product details

• Authors: Janet C Meyers Gornick, Janet C. Gornick, Janet C. Meyers Gornick, Marcia K. Meyers, Erik Olin Gornick Wright
• Assisted by: Janet C Gornick (Editor), Janet C. Gornick (Editor), Marcia K Meyers (Editor), Marcia K. Meyers (Editor), Erik Olin Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.08.2009
• EAN: 9781844673254
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-325-4
• No. of pages: 474
• Series: Real Utopias Project; Real Utopias Series; The Real Utopias Project; Real Utopias Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Gender studies, gender groups