Squaring Up : Policy Strategies to Raise Women's Incomes in the United States

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Summary: Terrific book for students, activists and everybody!
Review: This is an excellent collection of chapters by experts who are clear, articulate and accessible to a general audience. The focus is on policy strategies to raise women's incomes, which still only average 55% of men's in this country.
The policies discussed are
* implementing real welfare reform
* paying people for parenting
* increasing public subsidies for childcare
* reforming social security to benefit older women
* increasing the minimum wage
* re-focusing the movement for pay equity
* organizing more women in unions
* strengthening affirmative action
* opening the trades to women, and
* encouraging women and girls to enter math-based occupations.
Strong introductory and concluding chapters make the case for the need to raise women's incomes, and point out the potential of a broadly-based, multi-pronged political effort to do just that.