An urgent call for real-world solutions to gender inequality: The latest volume in the acclaimed Real Utopias Project.
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.
Preface Erik Olin Wright vii
Part I An Institutional Proposal
1 "Institutions that Support Gender Equality in Parenthood and Employment" Janet C. Gornick Marcia K. Meyers 3
Part II Principles
2 "Long Leaves, Child Well-Being, and Gender Equality" Barbara R. Bergmann 67
3 "Strong Gender Egalitarianism" Harry Brighouse Erik Olin Wright 79
4 "Whose Utopia?" Shireen Hassim 93
5 "Reforming Care" Nancy Folbre 111
6 "Should Feminists Aim for Gender Symmetry? Why a Dual-Earner/Dual-Caregiver Society Is Not Every Feminist's Utopia" Ann Shola Orloff 129
Part III Designs: Modifications, Specifications, Alternatives
7 "Social Policy Principles Applied to Reform of Gender Egalitarianism in Parenthood and Employment" Peter McDonald 161
8 "Democratizing Care" Johanna Brenner 177
9 "Who Should Care for Under-Threes?" Lane Kenworthy 193
10 "The Missing Link for Promoting Gender Equality: Work-Family and Anti-Discrimination Policies" Kathrin Zippel 209
11 "A US Model for Universal Sickness and Family Leave: Gender-Egalitarian and Cross-Class Caregiving Support for All" Heidi Hartman Vicky Lovell 231
Part IV Transformations: Obstacles, Opportunities, The Politics of Implementation
12 "Class Divisions among Women" Michael Shalev 255
13 "An American Road Map? Framing Feminist Goals in a Liberal Landscape Myra Marx Ferree 283
14 "The Political Path to a Dual-Earner/Dual-Caregiver Society: Pitfalls and Possibilities" Kimberly J. Morgan 317
15 "Class Disparities, Market Fundamentalism and Work-Family Policy: Lessons from California" Ruth Milkman 339
16 "The Normative and Institutional Embeddedness of Parental Employment: Its Impact on GenderEgalitarianism in Parenthood and Employment" Rosemary Crompton 365
17 "Fatherhood, Gender and Work-Family Policies" Scott Coltrane 385
18 "What's Culture Got to Do With It? Mothering Ideologies as Barriers to Gender Equity" Cameron Macdonald 411
Part V Conclusion
19 "Further Thoughts" Janet C. Gornick Marcia K. Meyers 435
Index 451
Overview
An urgent call for real-world solutions to gender inequality: The latest volume in the acclaimed Real Utopias Project.
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, ...