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Unbending gender : why family and work conflict and what to do about it
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ISBN: 0195147146 9786613098016 0199771898 1283098016 9780199771899 9780195147148 9780195147148 0195094646 9780195094640 0199840474 Year: 2000 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn't addressed the issues that dominate their daily lives--she outlines a new vision of feminism that calls for workplaces focused on the needs of families and, in divorce cases, recognition of the value of family work and its impact on women's earning power. Williams shows that workplaces are designed around men's bodies and life patterns in ways that

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