Women and Children Last

Women and Children Last
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Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000044914004
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Book Synopsis Women and Children Last by : Ruth Sidel

Download or read book Women and Children Last written by Ruth Sidel and published by Penguin Mass Market. This book was released on 1992 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparing the affluent U.S. of today to the Titanic (which, as a luxury liner, nevertheless lacked lifeboats for steerage women and children), Sidel contends in this realistic appraisal that despite the women's movement, social and economic trends of the last 20 years, especially the divorce rate and mechanization of industry, have reduced to bare survival hundreds of thousands of already impoverished women and children. Many are older women, battered wives or female heads of families, asserts Sidel (who interviewed several of them), and they are often victims of sex and racial discrimination in the workplace or of government cutbacks in human services. Following Sweden's example, the U.S., she argues, should develop policies to strengthen family life through universal entitlements; should pay women better wages, provide family planning, maternity leaves and prenatal care, along with day and after-school care.


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