Women in Britain Since 1945: Women, Family, Work and the State in the Post-War Years (Making Contemporary Britain)
By Jane Lewis.
Description
In this analysis, the author assesses the position of women in post-war British society, asking the fundamental question: how much has changed for women and how much has remained the same? Many women feel that they now have a wide range of choice with regard to work, marriage and when and if to have children. Yet it is also demonstrable that sexual segregation in the labour market persists, that women continue to do most of the unpaid work, and that they have unequal access to resources both within the family and beyond it. Women have made substantial gains but they have been unevenly distr...
ISBN(s)
0631169768, 9780631169765
