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Women, work, and politics : the political economy of gender inequality / Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Iversen, Torben.
- Series:
- Yale ISPS series.
- The Yale ISPS series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Political activity--United States.
- Women.
- Women and democracy--United States.
- Women and democracy.
- Women--United States--Economic conditions.
- Women--Employment--United States.
- Sexual division of labor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 202 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A political economy approach to gender inequality
- The structure of patriarchy: how bargaining power shapes social norms and political attitudes
- The gender division of labor, or why women work double shifts
- Fertility
- Political preferences
- Gender and political careers: a comparative labor market analysis of female political representation
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300153118
- 0300153112
- OCLC:
- 961583595
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