Rethinking the Values of Work and Economic Measures of Costs and Benefits What Realities of Family and Work for Women and Men Must Now Be Taken Into Account in the Workplace? DISCUSSION SUMMARY REFERENCES
Betty Friedan: I feel that I have to explain the readings we gave you today because they are not ideal, but they are extremely controversial. The New Perspectives Quarterly ("Prodigal parents," 1990) is a supposedly liberal publication that has produced an entire issue on parenting and ins...
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Published in | The American behavioral scientist (Beverly Hills) Vol. 37; no. 8; p. 1074 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Thousand Oaks
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
01.08.1994
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Summary: | Betty Friedan: I feel that I have to explain the readings we gave you today because they are not ideal, but they are extremely controversial. The New Perspectives Quarterly ("Prodigal parents," 1990) is a supposedly liberal publication that has produced an entire issue on parenting and instead points toward the new traditionalism, sending working women home again rather than dealing with questions of child care and parental leave. We discussed the lack of priority of political attention to such family issues. We see in this liberal publication, not just from the far right, an assumption that day care, child care itself, is a bad... |
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ISSN: | 0002-7642 1552-3381 |