Driven apart [[electronic resource] ] : women's employment equality and child care in Canadian public policy / / Annis May Timpson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814907203321
• Autore: Timpson Annis May
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Vancouver, BC, : UBC Press, c2001
• ISBN: 1-283-11152-7; 9786613111524; 0-7748-5001-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4/0971
• Soggetti: Affirmative action programs - Government policy - Canada; Child care - Government policy - Canada; Women - Canada - Economic conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-306) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- The Double-Edged Nature of Women's Employment Inequality -- Citizenship, Motherhood, and Employment in the Wartime and Welfare States -- The Royal Commission on the Status of Women -- A Just Society? The Trudeau Government's Response to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women -- Redefining the Issues: Systemic Discrimination and National Child Care Policies in Trudeau's Final Term -- The Royal Commission on Equality in Employment -- Breaking the Links: The Mulroney Government's Response to the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment -- Tiny Timid Steps: Employment Equity and Child Care in Mulroney's Second Term -- Creating Opportunity? The Chrétien Government's Approach to Employment Equity and Child Care -- Linked Together, Yet Driven Apart -- Research Interviews -- Turning Points in Canadian Policy Development on Women's Employment Equality and Child Care -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Annis May Timpson demonstrates how Canadian women's calls for family-friendly employment policies have translated into inaction or inappropriate action on the part of successive federal governments. She focuses on debates, public inquiries, and policy evolution during the ; Trudeau, Mulroney, and Chr�tien eras, contextualizing these developments with a discussion of the changing patterns of women's employment since the Second World War. Drawing on a wealth of interviews and close analysis of primary documents, Driven Apart explains why federal governments have been able to implement employment equity policies but have failed to develop a national system of child care. Driven Apart was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE and was awarded The Pierre Savard Prize by the International Council for Canadian Studies.