The Shriver Report
A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink
Published on 5. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-1-137-27974-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink chronicles American women and families and the dire situations they face on a daily basis, with the latest data on women in the economy and labor force, poverty statistics, the growing multiplicity of family structures, and rates of educational attainment, among others. The book analyzes the current American economy and culture through the lens of women who are doing it all and still struggling to get by. Over 70 million women and children - a third of all women and children - live in or near poverty. That's an astounding number given the enormous advances women have made in the 50 years since President Johnson announced his War on Poverty. Women are now half the nation's workforce, earn the majority of college and advanced degrees, and are the majority of our country's breadwinners, caregivers, consumers, and voters. But if women have gained so much power, why are so many of them financially insecure and living in less stable families than ever before?
The Shriver Report takes a deep dive into the economic, educational, and family and relationship choices that American women are making today, and explains how our nation's policy makers, business leaders, and we, ourselves, must adapt to the new realities that are causing our women and families to live in a perpetual state of insecurity. The book also includes personal stories from women living on the brink as well as new perspectives from thought leaders and public figures.
The Shriver Report takes a deep dive into the economic, educational, and family and relationship choices that American women are making today, and explains how our nation's policy makers, business leaders, and we, ourselves, must adapt to the new realities that are causing our women and families to live in a perpetual state of insecurity. The book also includes personal stories from women living on the brink as well as new perspectives from thought leaders and public figures.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
677 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-27974-3 (9781137279743)
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A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink
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Persons
Maria Shriver is a mother of four, a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist and producer, a six-time New York Times best-selling author, and an NBC News Special Anchor covering the shifting roles, emerging power and evolving needs of women in modern life. Since 2009, Shriver has produced a groundbreaking series of Shriver reports that chronicle and explore seismic shifts in the American culture and society affecting women today. Shriver was California's first lady from 2003 to 2010 and, during that time, she spearheaded what became the nation's premier forum for women, The Women's Conference. The Center for American Progress is an independent nonpartisan educational institute dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action. CAP develops new, progressive policy ideas, challenges the media to cover the issues that truly matter, and shapes the national debate. Founded in 2003 by John Podesta to provide long-term leadership and support to the progressive movement, CAP is headed by Neera Tanden and based in Washington, DC.
Content
Contents Opening A Photograph and life snapshot of Julie Kaas Foreword By Neera Tanden Part I: How We Got Here 8 Power Powerful and Powerless by Maria Shriver When We Were 9, We Were Honest By Professor Carol Gilligan A photograph and life snapshot of Nikki Brown Gender Equality is a Myth! By Beyonce Knowles Time to Wake Up: Stop Blaming Poverty on the Poor By Barbara Ehrenreich 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 Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Broke By Danielle Moddie-Mills The Changing Face of American Women By Angela Glover Blackwell Empowering Latinas By Eva Longoria The Family Marriage, Motherhood, and Men by Ann O'Leary What About the Fathers? By Kathryn Edin To the Brink and Back By Catherine Emmanuelle America's Working Single Mothers: An Appreciation By LeBron James 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 Marriage and Children, Another View By Ron Haskins Evolution of the Modern American Family By Stephanie Coontz Education Get Smart: A 21st Century Education by Dr. Anthony P. Carnevale and 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 Sec. Arne Duncan and Sec. Kathleen Sebelius Afterschool Programs: Investing in our Cities by Investing in our Kids By Mayor Betsy Price Single Mother in College: Willpower and a Lot of Help By Cara Cortez Higher Education: Interrupting the Cycle of Poverty By Eduardo Padron Part II: Why We Must Push Back The Consequences of Living on the Brink The Chronic Stress of Poverty: Toxic to Children By Dr. Nadine Burke Harris The Trap: Mental Illness and Women in Poverty By Dr. Ron Manderscheid Human Trafficking and Slavery in the United States: 'You Don't See the Chains' By Jada Pinkett Smith Armed and Vulnerable: Women in the U.S. Military By Dr. Sonya Borrero Part III: Solutions Public Solutions Putting Women At the Center of Policymaking: Public Solutions to Help Women Push Back From the Brink By Melissa Boteach and Shawn Fremstad We Have Blown a Huge Hole in Our Safety Net By Peter Edelman From VISTA Corps to Shriver Corps: Providing Solutions for 50 Years By Shirley Sagawa A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out By Idaho Governor C.L. Otter On the Brink with a Disabled Child By Katie Bentley The Circle of Protection: Balancing the Budget Does Not Require Burdening the Poor By Leith Anderson Private Solutions Private Solutions: What If Employers Put Women at the Center of Their Workplace Policies? By Ellen Galinsky, James T. Bond, and Eve Tahmincioglu Smart Business: Reviving the American Dream By Howard Schultz A photograph and life snapshot of Jessica McGowan Empower Women and You Recharge the World By Muhtar Kent Microfinancing Women: Great Return on Investment By Tory Burch Personal Solutions Personal Action, Collective Impact By Anne Mosle Are Women Devalued by Religions? By Sister Joan Chittister When Working Women Thrive, Our Nation Thrives By Sheryl Sandberg A photograph and life snapshot of Britani Hood-Mongar When Women Achieve Their Full Potential, So Will America By Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Part IV: Where Do We Go From Here Where Do We Go From Here? By Olivia Morgan and Karen Skelton Epilogue By Hillary Rodham Clinton Appendix Failure to Adapt to Changing Families Leaves Women Economically Vulnerable By Anna Greenberg, David Walker, Alex Lundry, and Alicia Downs Acknowledgements About the Contributors