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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458986203321

Autore

Cooke Lynn P.

Titolo

Gender-class equality in political economies / / Lynn Prince Cooke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-04592-3

9786613045928

1-135-84751-7

0-203-89062-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

Perspectives on gender

Disciplina

331.4

Soggetti

Sexual division of labor

Pay equity

Women - Employment - Government policy

Women - Economic conditions

Minorities - Employment - Government policy

Minorities - Economic conditions

Labor policy - Social aspects

Income distribution - Social aspects

Equality

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Gender-Class Equality Over Time; Introduction; The State and Institutional Equality Frames; The Country Cases: Policy Effects on Class v. Gender Equality; The Resilience of Inequality Within Its Institutional Frame; Book Overview; Chapter 2: Paid and Unpaid Work in Context; Introduction; Gender Differences in Labor Supply and Demand; The State and the Labor Market; The State and a Gendered Division of Household Labor

So What Happened to the Gender Revolution?Gender-Class Equality in Post-Industrial Economies; Summary: Policy Paths and Gender-Class



Equality; Chapter 3: Population Policies and Group Divides; Introduction; Nineteenth-Century Expansion and Women's Bodies; Nineteenth-Century Immigration Policies; Post-War Family Policies; Immigration Policies in the Post-War Economic Recovery; Reproduction in the "New" Global Economy; Immigration in the "New" Global Economy; Summary: New World, Old Social Order; Chapter 4: Educational Foundations of Equality; Education and the Institutional Equality Frame

Group Differences in Educational FoundationsPost-War Expansion of Pre-Primary Provision; More Secondary Education for All; Expanding Educational Attainment; Educational Structures and Relative Group Equality; Chapter 5: Policy Foundations of Gender-Class Employment Equality; Introduction; Australian Versus US Nineteenth-Century Worker Mobilization; European Post-War Employment Policies; Australian Versus US Post-War Equality Initiatives; The European Union and Gender Equality; Work-family Reconciliation Policies and Gender Equality; Gender-Class Employment Equality in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 6: Current Gender-Class Employment EqualityIntroduction; The Institutional Equality Frame and Employment Status; Individual Characteristics and Employment in Context; Weekly Work Hours of Employed Individuals in Context; Gender-Class Wage Inequalities in Context; Summary: Employment Equality in Its Institutional Equality Frame; Technical Appendix; Chapter 7: Gender-Class Equality in Paid and Unpaid Work; Introduction; Housework Over Time and Across Countries; Who Does Any Housework in Context?; Predicting Individual Housework Hours in Context

Couple Time in Paid and Unpaid Work in ContextEquality Exchanges in Their Institutional Frames; Technical Appendix; Chapter 8: Sustainable Policy for Greater Equality; The Resilience of Complex Inequality; The Inefficiency of Market Inequalities; Social Investment Strategies; Policy and Sustainable Unpaid Time; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies offers an in-depth analysis of gender-class equality across six countries to reveal why gender-class equality in paid and unpaid work remains elusive, and what more policy might do to achieve better social and economic outcomes. This book is the first to meld cross-time with cross-country comparisons, link macro structures to micro behavior, and connect class with gender dynamics to yield fresh insights into where we are on the road to gender equality, why it varies across industrialized countries, and the barriers to further progress. <