Women, Work, and Politics

The Political Economy of Gender Inequality

Torben Iversen, Frances Rosenbluth

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9780300153118
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labor outside the home, which is a function of structural, political, and institutional conditions. They go on to explain several anomalies of modern gender politics: why women vote differently from men; why women are better represented in the workforce in the United States than in other countries but less well represented in politics; why men share more of the household work in some countries than in others; and why some countries have such low fertility rates.

The first book to integrate the micro-level of families with the macro-level of national institutions, Women, Work, and Politics presents an original and groundbreaking approach to gender inequality.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• 1. A Political Economy Approach to Gender Inequality
• 2. The Structure of Patriarchy: How Bargaining Power Shapes Social Norms and Political Attitudes
• 3 .The Gender Division of Labor, or Why Women Work Double Shifts
• 4 .Fertility
• 5. Political Preferences
• 6. Gender and Political Careers: A Comparative Labor Market Analysis of Female Political Representation
• 7. Conclusions
• NOTES
• REFERENCES
• INDEX