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Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work, and Family
Chelsea Green
May 2012
On Sale: April 27, 2012
288 pages
ISBN: 1603584250
EAN: 9781603584258
Kindle: B007Y757YG
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Feminists opened up thousands of doors in the 1960s and
1970s, but decades later, are U.S. women where they thought
they'd be? The answer, it turns out, is a resounding no.
Surely there have been gains. Women now comprise nearly 60
percent of college undergraduates and half of all medical
and law students. They have entered the workforce in record
numbers, making the two-wage-earner family the norm. But
combining a career and family turned out to be more
complicated than expected. While women changed, social
structures surrounding work and family remained static.
Affordable and high-quality child care, paid family leave,
and equal pay for equal work remain elusive for the vast
majority of working women. In fact, the nation has fallen
far behind other parts of the world on the gender-equity
front. We lag behind more than seventy countries when it
comes to the percentage of women holding elected federal
offices. Only 17 percent of corporate boards include women
members. And just 5 percent of Fortune 500 companies are led
by women. It's time, says Madeleine M. Kunin, to change all that.
Looking back over five decades of advocacy, she analyzes
where progress stalled, looks at the successes of other
countries, and charts the course for the next feminist
revolution--one that mobilizes women, and men, to call for
the kind of government and workplace policies that can
improve the lives of women and strengthen their families.
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