Gender Equality Pa

The age of the male breadwinner and the female caregiver has passed, but gender inequality is as persistent as ever. This major new work intervenes in today's debates on domestic inequality, examining tensions between work and family life for women. Gender Equality explores class disparity, who should care for infants, and fatherhood in a dual-earner family. Surveying the design of public institutions that could significantly mitigate these pressures, contributors including Nancy Folbre, Janet Gornick, and Marcia Meyers offer useful, thought-provoking prescriptions for real change.

Janet C. Gornick is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). Marcia K. Meyers is Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs at the University of Washington. Series editor Erik Olin Wright is Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin.