The Persistence of Gender Inequality

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Synopsis

Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In this incisive account of why this is the case, Mary Evans argues that optimistic narratives of progress and emancipation have served to obscure long-term structural inequalities between women and men, structural inequalities which are not only about gender but also about general social inequality. In widening the lenses on the persistence of gender inequality, Evans shows how in contemporary debates about social inequality gender is often ignored, implicitly side-lining critical aspects of relations between women and men. This engaging short book attempts to join up some of the dots in the ways that we think about both social and gender inequality, and offers a new perspective on a problem that still demands society’s full attention.

Book details

Author:
Mary Evans
ISBN:
9780745689937
Related ISBNs:
9780745689920, 9780745689913
Publisher:
Wiley
Pages:
200
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-02-15
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2017
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies