Author

Publication

2016-12-12 - Wiley-Interscience

Language

English

Word Count

50,000 words, Guess

Page Count

200 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100745689922
  • ISBN-139780745689920
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016017192
  • OCLC Control Number951854691
  • Better World Books9780745689920
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCHQ1237.E9175 2016
  • LCCHQ1237 .E9175 2017

Description

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The Persistence of Gender InequalityPaperbackWiley-Interscience2016-12-12

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