Women, Work, and Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality (The Institution for Social and Policy Studies) - Softcover

Iversen, Torben; Rosenbluth, Frances McCall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 030017134X ISBN 13: 9780300171341

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Torben Iversen is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. Frances Rosenbluth is Damon Wells Professor of International Politics at Yale University.

Review:

Winner of the 2011 Victoria Schuck Award sponsored by the American Political Science Association (Victoria Schuck Award American Political Science Association)

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 030017134X
• ISBN 13: 9780300171341
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224