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Cover; Title Page; Contents; Julie's Story; Preface; By Neera Tanden; PART I: HOW WE GOT HERE; POWER; Powerful and Powerless; By Maria Shriver; 'When We Were 9, We Were Honest' By Carol Gilligan, Ph.D.; Gender Equality Is a Myth! By Beyoncé Knowles-Carter; Time to Wake Up: Stop Blaming Poverty on the Poor By Barbara Ehrenreich; Are Women Devalued by Religions? By Sister Joan Chittister; THE WORKPLACE; A Woman's Place Is in the Middle Class; By Heather Boushey; The Gender Wage Gap: A Civil Rights Issue for Our Time By Maya Harris; Making the Care Economy a Caring Economy By Ai-jen Poo |
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Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Broke By Danielle Moodie-MillsThe Changing Face of American Women By Angela Glover Blackwell; Empowering Latinas By Eva Longoria; THE FAMILY; Marriage, Motherhood, and Men; By Ann O'Leary; America's Working Single Mothers: An Appreciation By LeBron James; To the Brink and Back By Catherine Emmanuelle; Marriage and Children: Another View By Ron Haskins; What About the Fathers? By Dr. Kathryn Edin; A Call to Men: Ending Men's Violence Against Women By Tony Porter; Women and Poverty: The Role of Lawyers and Family Law By John Bouman and Wendy Pollack |
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Evolution of the Modern American Family By Stephanie CoontzEDUCATION; A 21st-Century Education for All Women; By Dr. Anthony P. Carnevale and Dr. Nicole Smith; Turning Poverty Around: Training Parents to Help Their Kids By Jennifer Garner; Living the Head Start Dream By Almeta Keys; Preschool for All: The Path to America's Middle-Class Promise By Secretary Arne Duncan and Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Afterschool Programs: Investing in Our Cities by Investing in Our Kids By Mayor Betsy Price; Higher Education: Interrupting the Cycle of Poverty By Eduardo J. Padrón, Ph.D.; Nikki's Story |
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PART II: WHY WE MUST PUSH BACKThe Consequences of Living on the Brink; The Chronic Stress of Poverty: Toxic to Children By Nadine Burke Harris, M.D.; The Trap: Mental Illness and Women in Poverty By Ron Manderscheid, Ph. D.; Armed and Vulnerable: Women in the U.S. Military By Sonya Borrero, M.D.; Human Trafficking and Slavery in the United States: 'You Don't See the Chains' By Jada Pinkett Smith; Britani's Story; PART III: THE NATION REIMAGINED; A New America that Cares; By Anne-Marie Slaughter; America's Promise, One Woman at a Time By Marianne Cooper, Ph. D.; PUBLIC SOLUTIONS |
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Putting Women at the Center of PolicymakingBy Melissa Boteach and Shawn Fremstad, and introducing the Shriver Corps; We Have Blown a Huge Hole in Our Safety Net By Peter Edelman; The Circle of Protection: Balancing the Budget Does Not Require Burdening the Poor By Leith Anderson; From VISTA Corps to Shriver Corps: Providing Solutions for 50 Years By Shirley Sagawa; A Hand Up, Not a Handout By Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter; On the Brink with a Disabled Child By Katie Bentley; PRIVATE SOLUTIONS; What If Employers Put Women at the Center of Their Workplace Policies? |
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Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. 1 in 3 Americans today live in poverty or teeter on the brink. 70 million are women and the children who depend on them. The fragile economic status of millions of American women is the shameful secret of the modern era-yet these women are also our greatest hope for change, and our nation's greatest undervalued asset. The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink asks-and answers-big questions. Why are millions of women financially vulnerable when others have made such great progress? Why are millions of women struggling to make ends meet even though they are hard at work? What is it about our nation-government, business, family, and even women themselves-that drives women to the financial brink? And what is at stake? To answer these questions, we examined in detail three major cultural and economic changes over the past 50 years: · Women work more outside the home, but still earn less than men. · Women lead more families on their own. · Women today need higher education to enter the middle class. To forge a path forward that recognizes this reality, The Shriver Report brought together a power packed roster of big thinkers and talented contributors, including Hillary Clinton, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Lebron James, and challenged them to collaborate with us to develop fresh thinking around practical solutions. This report's unique combination of academic research, personal reflections, authentic photojournalism, groundbreaking poll results, front line workers, and box office celebrities, is all focused on a single issue of national importance: women and the economy. In The Shriver Report, Davos meets Main Street. Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. 1 in 3 Americans today live in poverty or teeter on the brink. 70 million are women and the children who depend on them. The fragile economic status of millions of American women is the shameful secret of the modern era-yet these women are also our greatest hope for change, and our nation's greatest undervalued asset |
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Families -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Families
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Social conditions
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Women -- Social conditions
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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United States
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Electronic book
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Center for American Progress.
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| ISBN |
9780795339615 |
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0795339615 |
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9780795339622 |
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0795339623 |
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9781451628999 |
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1451628994 |
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