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1 online resource (xviii, 318 pages) |
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""Contents""; ""Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Driven Apart""; ""1 The Double-Edged Nature of Women�s Employment Inequality""; ""2 Citizenship, Motherhood, and Employment in the Wartime and Welfare States""; ""3 The Royal Commission on the Status of Women""; ""4 A Just Society? The Trudeau Government�s Response to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women""; ""5 Redefining the Issues: Systemic Discrimination and National Child Care Policies in Trudeau�s Final Term""; ""6 The Royal Commission on Equality in Employment"" |
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""7 Breaking the Links: The Mulroney Government�s Response to the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment""""8 Tiny Timid Steps: Employment Equity and Child Care in Mulroney�s Second Term""; ""9 Creating Opportunity? The Chrétien Government�s Approach to Employment Equity and Child Care""; ""10 Linked Together, Yet Driven Apart""; ""Appendix A Research Interviews""; ""Appendix B Turning Points in Canadian Policy Development on Women�s Employment Equality and Child Care""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
| Summary |
Annotation Timpson (Canadian politics and public policy, University of Sussex) demonstrates how Canadian women's calls for family-friendly employment policies have translated into inaction or inappropriate action on the part of successive federal governments. She focuses on debates, public inquiries, and policy evolution during the Trudeau, Mulroney, and Chretien eras, contextualizing these developments with a discussion of the changing patterns of women's employment since WWII. Drawing on interviews and close analysis of primary documents, she explains why federal governments have been able to implement employment equity policies but have failed to develop a national system of child care. c. Book News Inc |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-306) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Affirmative action programs -- Government policy -- Canada
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Child care -- Government policy -- Canada
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Women -- Canada -- Economic conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Affirmative action programs -- Government policy
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Child care -- Government policy
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Women -- Economic conditions
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Canada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0774850019 |
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9780774850018 |
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0774808209 |
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9780774808200 |
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