Squaring up : policy strategies to raise women's incomes in the United States / edited by Mary C. King.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

King, Mary C., 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wages--Women--United States.

Wages.

Wages--Women.

United States.

Pay equity--United States.

Pay equity.

Sex discrimination in employment--United States.

Sex discrimination in employment.

Physical Description:

viii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Policy strategies to raise women's incomes in the United States

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2001]

Summary:

Squaring Up discusses the potential of ten different policy strategies to raise women's incomes. They constitute a pluralist agenda for women, one that can be supported by people across the American political spectrum as it calls for support for stay-at-home mothers, poor women, women in stereotypical "women's jobs," women in non-traditional employment, high-powered women executives, and older women.

Contents:

Why we need policies to raise women's incomes / Mary C. King

Moving beyond "get a job": what real welfare reform would look like / Randy Albelda, Chris Tilly

What would we gain by subsidizing child care? / Barbara R. Bergmann

Public support for parents / Nancy Folbre

Are older women economically secure? : reforming Social Security / Lois B. Shaw, Catherine Hill

Raising the minimum wage and living wage campaigns / Deborah M. Figart

Pay equity: did it work? / Margaret Hallock

Just ask: women's strengths in collective bargaining / Peter Donohue

Promoting women's economic progress through affirmative action / M.V. Lee Badgett, Jeannette Lim

Great work if you can get it: women in the skilled trades / Barbara Byrd

Is teaching more girls more math the key to higher wages? / Catherine J. Weinberger

A policy agenda to raise women's incomes in the United States / Mary C. King.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0472097474

0472067478

OCLC:

45466090