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"In In Pursuit of Equity, Kessler-Harris pierces the skin of arguments and legislation to grasp the preconceptions that have shaped the experience of women: a "gendered imagination" that has defined what men and women alike think of as fair and desirable. In this brilliant account that traces social policy from the New Deal to the 1970s, she shows how a deeply embedded set of beliefs has distorted seemingly neutral social legislation to further limit the freedom and equality of women. Government rules generally sought to protect women from exploitation, even from employment itself; but at the same time, they attached the most important benefits to wage work. To be a real citizen, one must earn - and most policymakers (even female ones) assumed from the beginning that women were not, and should not be, breadwinners. Kessler-Harris traces the impact of this gender bias in the New Deal programs of Social Security, unemployment insurance, and fair labor standards, in Federal income tax policy, and the new discussion of women`s rights that emerged after World War II. "For generations," she writes, " American women lacked not merely the practice, but frequently the idea of individual economic freedom." Only in the 1960s and `70s did old assumptions begin to break down - yet the process is far from complete." "Even today, with women closer to full economic citizenship than ever before, Kessler-Harris`s insights offer a keen new understanding of the issues that dominate the headlines, from the marriage penalty in the tax code to the glass ceiling in corporate America."--BOOK JACKET.
目录
Acknowledgments p. ix
Introduction p. 3
The Responsibilities of Life p. 19
The Mere Fact of Sex p. 22
A Practical Independence p. 34
A Man-Run Company p. 45
Marriage: A Defining Condition p. 56
Maintaining Self-Respect p. 64
Self-Help Is the Best Help p. 66
Have We Lost Courage? p. 74
A Sieve with Holes p. 88
A Foundling Dumped upon the Doorstep p. 101
Questions of Equity p. 117
Matters of Right p. 121
The Hardest Problem of the Whole Thing p. 130
They Feel That They Have Lost Citizenship p. 142
It Would Be a Great Comfort to Him p. 156
A Principle of Law but Not of Justice p. 170
Apportioning the Income Tax p. 172
More Than Money Is Involved p. 178
To Confer a Special Benefit on the Marital Relationship p. 193
What Discriminates? p. 203
How're You Going to Feel? p. 206
The President's Commission on the Status of Women p. 213
Calling into Question the Entire Doctrine of Sex p. 226
Equal Pay for Equal Work p. 234
What's Fair? p. 239
Constructing an Equal Opportunity Framework p. 241
Standing with Lot's Wife p. 246
Divided Women p. 267
At First Glance, the Idea May Seem Silly p. 275
History Is Moving in This Direction p. 280
Epilogue p. 290
Notes p. 297
Index p. 365
Introduction p. 3
The Responsibilities of Life p. 19
The Mere Fact of Sex p. 22
A Practical Independence p. 34
A Man-Run Company p. 45
Marriage: A Defining Condition p. 56
Maintaining Self-Respect p. 64
Self-Help Is the Best Help p. 66
Have We Lost Courage? p. 74
A Sieve with Holes p. 88
A Foundling Dumped upon the Doorstep p. 101
Questions of Equity p. 117
Matters of Right p. 121
The Hardest Problem of the Whole Thing p. 130
They Feel That They Have Lost Citizenship p. 142
It Would Be a Great Comfort to Him p. 156
A Principle of Law but Not of Justice p. 170
Apportioning the Income Tax p. 172
More Than Money Is Involved p. 178
To Confer a Special Benefit on the Marital Relationship p. 193
What Discriminates? p. 203
How're You Going to Feel? p. 206
The President's Commission on the Status of Women p. 213
Calling into Question the Entire Doctrine of Sex p. 226
Equal Pay for Equal Work p. 234
What's Fair? p. 239
Constructing an Equal Opportunity Framework p. 241
Standing with Lot's Wife p. 246
Divided Women p. 267
At First Glance, the Idea May Seem Silly p. 275
History Is Moving in This Direction p. 280
Epilogue p. 290
Notes p. 297
Index p. 365
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