Driven Apart : Women's Employment Equality and Child Care in Canadian Public Policy

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 Chr�tien 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. From The Outset Of Second-wave Feminism In Canada, Women Have Advanced Analyses Of Employment Inequality That Embrace Their Labour In Both The Public And Domestic Spheres. Activists Have Argued That Only When The Canadian State Takes Account Of Their Roles As Care-providers Can Women's Full Potential As Worker-citizens Be Realized. Drawing On A Wealth Of Interviews And Close Analysis Of Primary Documents, The Author Demonstrates How Women's Calls For Family-friendly Employment Policies Have Translated Into Inaction, Inappropriate Action, Or Insufficiently Holistic Action On The Part Of Successive Federal Governments. This Book Explains Why Federal Governments Have Been Able To Implement Employment Equity Policies, But Failed To Develop A National System Of Child Care. The Double-edged Nature Of Women's Employment Inequality -- Citizenship, Motherhood, And Employment In The Wartime And Welfare States -- The Royal Commission On The Status Of Women -- A Just Society? The Trudeau Government's Response To The Royal Commission On The Status Of Women -- Redefining The Issues: Systemic Discrimination And National Child Care Policies In Trudeau's Final Term -- The Royal Commission On Equality In Employment -- Breaking The Links: The Mulroney Government's Response To The Royal Commission On Equality In Employment -- Tiny Timid Steps: Employment Equity And Child Care In Mulroney's Second Term -- Creating Opportunity? The Chrétien Government's Approach To Employment Equity And Child Care -- Linked Together, Yet Driven Apart. Annis May Timpson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [277]-306) And Index. Annotation Timpson (Canadian politics and public policy, University of Sussex) 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 Chretien eras, contextualizing these developments with a discussion of the changing patterns of women's employment since WWII. Drawing on interviews and close analysis of primary documents, she explains why federal governments have been able to implement employment equity policies but have failed to develop a national system of child care. c. Book News Inc