Driven Apart

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

By Annis May Timpson
Categories: Political Science, Public & Social Policy, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Women’s Studies, Canadian Political Science
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774808200, 336 pages, February 2001
Paperback : 9780774808217, 336 pages, February 2002
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774850018, 336 pages, October 2007
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Table of contents

Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. The Double-Edged Nature of Women's Employment Inequality

2. Citizenship, Motherhood, and Employment in the Wartime and Welfare States

3. The Royal Commission on the Status of Women

4. A Just Society? The Trudeau Government’s Response to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women

5. Redefining the Issues: Systemic Discrimination and National Child Care Policies in Trudeau’s Final Term

6. The Royal Commission on Equality in Employment

7. Breaking the Links: The Mulroney Government’s Response to the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment

8. Tiny Timid Steps: Employment Equity and Child Care in Mulroney’s Second Term

9. Creating Opportunity? The Chrétien Government’s Approach to Employment Equity and Child Care

10. Linked Together, Yet Driven Apart

Appendices

A. Research Interviews

B. Turning Points in Canadian Policy Development on Women's Employment Equality and Child Care

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Description

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 Chrétien 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.

Awards

  • Winner, Pierre Savard Prize, International Council for Canadian Studies 2002
  • Winner, CWSA Book Prize, Canadian Women's Studies Association 2002
  • Winner, Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine 2002

Reviews

[A] meticulously researched and engagingly written book ... Those interested in Canadian politics and administration should find this book as illuminating as those interested in employment policy and in policy issues differentially affecting women.

- C. Shrewsbury