The baby boon : how family-friendly America cheats the childless / Elinor Burkett
- Bib ID:
- 1775643
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- Book
- Author:
- Burkett, Elinor
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- New York : Free Press, c2000
- 256 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0684863030
- Summary:
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""Equal Pay for Equal Work" is one of the foundations of modern American work life. But workers without children do not reap the same rewards as do their colleagues who are parents. Instead, as veteran journalist Elinor Burkett reveals, the past decade has seen the most massive redistribution of wealth since the War on Poverty - this time not from rich to poor but from nonparents, no matter how modest their means, to parents, no matter how affluent. Parents today want their child and their Lexus, too - which accounts for the new culture of parental privilege that Burkett aptly calls "the baby boon."".
"Burkett reports from the front lines of the work-place: from the hallowed newsroom of The New York Times to the floor of a textile factory in North Carolina to a hospital in Boston. She exposes a simmering backlash against perks for parents, from workers who are losing their tempers and fighting for their rights. She spells out how tax breaks for families with six-figure incomes are not available to childless people earning half as much. And she tells the dramatic story of how pro-family conservatives and feminists became strange bedfellows on the issue of pro-family rights, leading to an increase in workplace and government entitlement for parents - at the same time as the childless poor lost their public benefits.".
"Armed with hard data and grassroots reporting, Elinor Burkett points the way to a more equitable future. With an inside look at what some companies are already doing to redress the grievances of childless workers and a hard assessment of what the truly needy - children and adults - require in order to survive, Burkett fires the first shot in the battle to come."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- All Animals Are Equal
- Pt. 1. America's New Family-Friendly Face: In the Workplace and in Public Policy. 1. Unequal Work for Unequal Pay. 2. Pregnant Payoffs
- Pt. 2. For the Children? Hardly - Pure Politics Are Driving This Train. 3. For the Sake of Which Children? 4. Family Frenzy. 5. The Maternal Mystique
- Pt. 3. Balancing Act. 6. No Kidding. 7. When the Bough Breaks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-245) and index.
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