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Gender Equity: An Integrated Theory of Stability and Change (SAGE Library of Social Research)
Gender Equity An Integrated Theory of Stability and Change - SAGE Library of Social Research Author:Janet Saltzman Chafetz Chafetz addresses two fundamental questions for feminist sociologists: how to explain the maintenance and reproduction of gender inequality and how to explain changes in the level of inequality?A number of theories have been developed to explain gender inequality but have focussed either on the micro-level of individual interaction or on the mac... more »ro-level looking at societal and institutional factors. In this bold and ambitious book Chafetz attempts to integrate these various theories into an holistic one which accounts for stability and change in inequality of gender systems at all levels of analysis.Her suggestions for implementing lasting change - largely by reordering the gender division of labour and influencing elites - will be important for both feminist activists and theorists.« less