Description
Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews and analysis of primary documents, including two Royal Commissions, this work 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.
Trade Review[A] meticulously researched and engagingly written book ... Those interested in Canadian politics and administration should find this book as illuminating as those interested in employment policy and in policy issues differentially affecting women. -- C. Shrewsbury * Choice *
Table of ContentsTables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
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
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
Appendices
A. Research Interviews
B. Turning Points in Canadian Policy Development on Women's Employment Equality and Child Care
Notes
Bibliography
Index
