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This comprehensive and carefully organized collection provides an overview of the relationship between gender and economic stratification in seven industrialized countries. Everywhere, as a Polish commentator notes, men have too much power, and women too much work.' Nevertheless, these studies reveal large differences in the circumstances of women in different countries and help to illuminate the several developments in the labor market, the family, and public policy which explain the extreme feminization of poverty in the United States. Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York
Lucid, careful, and systematic, the book builds a compelling explanation for the needless impoverishment experienced by millions of American women and offers a sensible, realistic agenda for its reduction.GERTRUDE SCHAFFNER GOLDBERG is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Social Policy at the Adelphi University School of Social Work. She keynoted the Nordisk Forum in 1988, a Scandinavian follow-up to the United Nations Conference on Women held in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985. She is also the author and co-author of books and articles on social welfare policy.
ELEANOR KREMEN is an Associate Professor at the Adelphi University School of Social Work. She is the Educational Director of the Social Services Center, a field training site for students. She has written and co-authored articles on social work practice and policy for women, poverty and drug abuse.Thanks for subscribing!
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