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The Persistence of Gender Inequality
Mary Evans
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Description for The Persistence of Gender Inequality
Paperback. Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 254.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
254g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745689920
SKU
V9780745689920
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Ref
99-17
About Mary Evans
Mary Evans is Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Reviews for The Persistence of Gender Inequality
A perceptive, focused essay... Highly recommended. Times Higher Education In this wide-ranging and elegantly written book, Mary Evans deftly unravels existing mystifications about gender equality as an inevitable achievement of feminism in late modernity. If we don t tackle the reality of still-existing global social inequalities, the feminist project will remain unfinished. Kathy Davis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ... Read more