Driven Apart
Women's Employment Equality and Child Care in Canadian Public Policy
Published on 1. February 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-7748-0821-7 (ISBN)
Description
Annis May Timpson 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 the Second World War. Drawing on a wealth of interviews and close analysis of primary documents, Driven Apart explains why federal governments have been able to implement employment equity policies but have failed to develop a national system of child care.
Driven Apart was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE and was awarded The Pierre Savard Prize by the International Council for Canadian Studies.
Driven Apart was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE and was awarded The Pierre Savard Prize by the International Council for Canadian Studies.
Reviews / Votes
[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)More details
Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Vancouver
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
513 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7748-0821-7 (9780774808217)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Annis May Timpson is the Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Content
Tables
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 Chretien 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
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 Chretien 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