Driven Apart
Women's Employment Equality and Child Care in Canadian Public Policy
La description
Annis May Timpson demonstrates how Canadian women’s calls for
family-friendly employment policies have translated into inaction or
inappropriate action on the part of successive federal governments. She
focuses on debates, public inquiries, and policy evolution during the
Trudeau, Mulroney, and Chrétien eras, contextualizing these
developments with a discussion of the changing patterns of women’s
employment since the Second World War. Drawing on a wealth of
interviews and close analysis of primary documents, Driven
Apart explains why federal governments have been able to implement
employment equity policies but have failed to develop a national system
of child care. Driven Apart was selected as an Outstanding
Academic Title by CHOICE and was awarded The Pierre Savard Prize by the
International Council for Canadian Studies.
Reviews
[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