ISBN:
9780674059382
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (316 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
[Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2017 Electronic reproduction
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jackson, Robert Max Destined for equality
DDC:
305.42/09
Keywords:
Women's rights History
;
Women Economic conditions
;
Women Social conditions
;
Women Legal status, laws, etc
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
;
Vrouwenemancipatie
;
Women ; Economic conditions
;
Women ; Legal status, laws, etc
;
Women ; Social conditions
;
Women's rights
;
History
Abstract:
Men and women remain unequal in the United States, but in this book, Robert Max Jackson demonstrates that gender inequality is irrevocably crumbling. Destined for Equality, the first integrated analysis of gender inequality's modern decline, tells the story of that progressive movement toward equality over the past two centuries in America, showing that women's status has risen consistently and continuously. Jackson asserts that women's rising status has been due largely to the emergence of modern political and economic organizations, which have transformed institutional priorities concerning gender. Although individual politicians and businessmen generally believed women should remain in their traditional roles, Jackson shows that it was simply not in the interests of modern enterprise and government to foster inequality. The search for profits, votes, organizational rationality, and stability all favored a gender-neutral approach that improved women's status. The inherent gender impartiality of organizational interests won out over the prejudiced preferences of the men who ran them
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-309) and index
,
Electronic reproduction
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