In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century AmericaOxford University Press, 2003 - 374 páginas In this volume, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the transformation of some of the United States' most significant social policies. Tracing changing ideals of fairness from the 1920s to the 1970s, she shows how a deeply embedded set of beliefs, or "gendered imagination" shaped seemingly neutral social legislation to limit the freedom and equality of women. Law and custom generally sought to protect women from exploitation, and sometimes from employment itself; but at the same time, they assigned the most important benefits to wage work. Most policy makers (even female ones) assumed from the beginning that women would not be breadwinners. Kessler-Harris shows how ideas about what was fair for men as well as women influenced old age and unemployment insurance, fair labor standards, Federal income tax policy, and the new discussion of women's rights that emerged after World War II. Only in the 1960s and 1970s did the gendered imagination begin to alter--yet the process is far from complete. |
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... ? 206 The President's Commission on the Status of Women 213 Calling into Question the Entire Doctrine of Sex 226 Equal Pay for Equal Work 234 Constructing an Equal Opportunity Framework 241 Standing with Lot's Wife Contents.
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... Opportunity Framework 241 Standing with Lot's Wife 246 Divided Women 267 At First Glance , the Idea May Seem Silly 275 History Is Moving in This Direction 280 Epilogue 290 Notes 297 Index 365 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Like all books , this one ...
... Opportunity Framework 241 Standing with Lot's Wife 246 Divided Women 267 At First Glance , the Idea May Seem Silly 275 History Is Moving in This Direction 280 Epilogue 290 Notes 297 Index 365 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Like all books , this one ...
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Contenido
Introduction | 3 |
CHAPTER 1 The Responsibilities of Life | 19 |
CHAPTER 2 Maintaining SelfRespect | 64 |
CHAPTER 3 Questions of Equity | 117 |
CHAPTER 4 A Principle of Law but Not of Justice | 170 |
CHAPTER 5 What Discriminates? | 203 |
CHAPTER 6 Whats Fair? | 239 |
Epilogue | 290 |
Notes | 297 |
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