Women's Equality, Demography and Public Policies
Women's Equality, Demography and Public Policies

Author: A. Heitlinger

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1993-09-07

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 0230374786

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This book assesses the comparability between policies promoting women's equality and the reversal of fertility decline. Based on comparative data from Canada, Australia, Britain, and to a more limited extent the USA, Alena Heitlinger examines the impact of major international instruments promoting women's equality, and national similarities and differences in women's policy machinery, provision for maternity and childcare, fiscal assistance for families with children, and the costs and benefits of fertility-related measures vis - vis immigration related measures.

Interests of State
Interests of State

Author: Leslie Alexander Pal

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780773513273

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An exploration of the direct funding of advocacy groups by the government. Focusing on groups concerned with the official languages, multiculturalism, and women's issues, Leslie Pal argues that funding is not neutral but is driven by state interests and by a national unity agenda.

Femmes Et L'état Canadien
Femmes Et L'état Canadien

Author: Caroline Andrew

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 0773514236

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A collection of essays presented at a conference to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the release of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, Women and the Canadian State both celebrates and critically assesses the Report. Women bureaucrats, activists, and academics consider the impact, successes, and failures of the Report from a variety of viewpoints and reflect on the experience of Canadian women since its publication in 1970.

Family Change and Family Policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States
Family Change and Family Policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States

Author: Sheila B. Kamerman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 9780198290254

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This is the first volume in a series intended to report on the evolution of family policies in Western welfare states (and to compare current provisions). The developments are presented in the context of a report on family change for each of the countries, and with a view of the economic, political, and institutional climates in which they occurred. Topics covered in this book include family formation and current structural patterns, families and the division of labor, the income of families (earnings, taxation, transfer programs), and also the political and institutional contexts for family policy. An extensive bibliography is provided.