Women, Work, and Politics The Political Economy of Gender Inequality |
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| Author:
| Iversen, Torben
Rosenbluth, Frances Mccall |
| Series title: | The Institution for Social and Policy Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-300-17134-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $33.95 |
Book Description:
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Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labor outside the home, which is a function of structural, political, and institutional conditions. They go on to explain several anomalies of modern gender politics: why women vote differently from men; why women are better represented in the workforce in the United States than in...
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Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labor outside the home, which is a function of structural, political, and institutional conditions. They go on to explain several anomalies of modern gender politics: why women vote differently from men; why women are better represented in the workforce in the United States than in other countries but less well represented in politics; why men share more of the household work in some countries than in others; and why some countries have such low fertility rates.
The first book to integrate the micro-level of families with the macro-level of national institutions, Women, Work, and Politics presents an original and groundbreaking approach to gender inequality.