Awards

• Winner of Canadian Women's Studies Association Book Prize 2002-2003.
• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2002.
• Winner of CWSA Book Prize, Canadian Women's Studies Association 2002 (Canada)
• Winner of Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine 2002 (United States)
• Winner of Pierre Savard Award 2002.

Overview

From the outset of second-wave feminism in Canada, women have advanced analyses of employment inequality that embrace their labour in both the public and domestic spheres. Through campaigns, task force and direct engagement with government departments, activists have argued that only when the Canadian state takes account of their roles as care-providers can women's full potential as worker-citizens be realized. Drawing on interviews and close analysis of primary documents, including two Royal Commissions, Timpson demonstrates how women's calls for family-friendly employment policies have translated into inaction, inappropriate action, or insufficiently holistic action on the part of successive federal governments. ""Driven Apart"" explains why federal governments have been able to implement employment equity policies, but failed to develop a national system of child care. While she focuses on debates and policy evolution during the Trudeau, Mulroney and Chretien eras, Timpson situates these developments within a broader historical context that considers the changing patterns of women's employment since the Second World War. ""Driven Apart"" should be of interest to those studying public policy, the sociology of gender, and Canadian politics, and should also be of use to policy-makers and government agencies.

Full Product Details

Author:   Annis May Timpson
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9780774808200

ISBN 10:   0774808209
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   19 February 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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[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

[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 *

Author Information

Annis May Timpson is the Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

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