{"id":1688,"date":"2009-07-29T08:04:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T13:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2009-07-29T08:04:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T13:04:30","slug":"got-egal-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/07\/29\/got-egal-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Egalitarianism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/pix\/ghij\/g-covers\/gornick_meyers_gender_equality.gif' alt='' class='left' \/>A new book has caught my eye, covering some of my favorite themes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1844673251?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=girlwithpende-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1844673251\">Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor (The Real Utopias Project)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=girlwithpende-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1844673251\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/>, by Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers et al.  <\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, the book proposes a set of policies-paid family leave provisions, working time regulations, and early childhood education and care-designed to foster more egalitarian family divisions of labor by strengthening men&#8217;s ties at home and women&#8217;s attachment to paid work. Its policy proposal is followed by a series of commentaries&#8211;both critical and supportive&#8211;from a group of distinguished scholars, and a concluding essay in which Gornick and Meyers respond to the debate over how best to promote egalitarian policies.<\/p>\n<p>Contributors include heavy hitters like Barbara Bergmann, Johanna Brenner, Harry Brighouse &amp; Erik Olin Wright, Scott Coltrane, Rosemary Crompton, Myra Marx Ferree, Nancy Folbre, Heidi Hartmann &amp; Vicky Lovell, Shireen Hassim, Lane Kenworthy, Cameron Macdonald, Peter McDonald, Ruth Milkman, Kimberly Morgan, Ann Orloff, Michael Shalev, and Kathrin Zippel.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contemporaryfamilies.org\">CCF<\/a> for the heads up!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book has caught my eye, covering some of my favorite themes: Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor (The Real Utopias Project), by Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers et al. In a nutshell, the book proposes a set of policies-paid family leave provisions, working time regulations, and early childhood education and care-designed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[400,8959,2715,876,3109,21938,1008],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-reviews","tag-families","tag-fatherhood","tag-men","tag-motherhood","tag-worklife","tag-workplace"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}