Destined for Equality: The Inevitable Rise of Women's Status - Couverture rigide

Jackson, Robert Max

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 067405511X ISBN 13 : 9780674055117

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This text tells of the progressive movement toward sexual equality over the 1980s and 1990s in America, showing that women's status has risen consistently and continuously. It asserts that this rise is due to the emergence of modern political and economic organizations, which transformed institutional priorities concerning gender. Although individual politicians and businessmen believed women should remain in their traditional roles, Robert 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 favoured 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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Men and women remain unequal in the United States, but in this provocative 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. As economic power migrated into large-scale organizations inherently indifferent to gender distinctions, the patriarchal model lost its social and cultural sway, and women's continual efforts to rise in the world became steadily more successful. Total gender equality will eventually prevail; the only questions remaining are what it will look like, and how and when it will arrive.

Biographie de l'auteur

Robert Max Jackson is Professor of Sociology at New York University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 067405511X
• ISBN 13: 9780674055117
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 330
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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