The Resource Birth strike : the hidden fight over women's work, Jenny Brown
Birth strike : the hidden fight over women's work, Jenny Brown
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- Summary
- When House Speaker Paul Ryan urged U.S. women to have more children, and Ross Douthat requested "More babies, please," they openly expressed what U.S. policymakers have been discussing for decades with greater discretion. Using technical language like "age structure," "dependency ratio," and "entitlement crisis," establishment think tanks are raising the alarm: if U.S. women don't have more children, we'll face an aging workforce, slack consumer demand, and a stagnant economy. Feminists generally believe that a prudish religious bloc is responsible for the fight over reproductive freedom in the U.S., but hidden behind this conventional explanation is a dramatic fight over women's reproductive labor. On one side, elite policymakers want an expanding workforce reared with a minimum of employer spending and a maximum of unpaid women's work. On the other side, women are refusing to produce children at levels desired by economic planners. With little access to childcare, family leave, health care, and with insufficient male participation, U.S. women are conducting a spontaneous birth strike. In other countries, panic over low birth rates has led governments to underwrite childbearing with generous universal programs, but in the U.S., women have not yet realized the potential of our bargaining position. When we do, it will lead to new strategies for winning full access to abortion and birth control, and for improving the difficult working conditions U.S. parents now face when raising children
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 225 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction; International comparisons; Small government, big families; Is it a birth strike? women testify; Comstockery to the baby boom; Population panic to the baby bust; Longevity: crisis or blessing?; Immigration: "instant adults"; Reproduction and race; Cheap labor; Cannon fodder; Controlling the means of reproduction; Appendix: consciousness-raising questions
- Isbn
- 9781629636382
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- Birth strike : the hidden fight over women's work
- Title
- Birth strike
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- the hidden fight over women's work
- Statement of responsibility
- Jenny Brown
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- Birth strike
- Title variation remainder
- the hidden fight over womens work
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When House Speaker Paul Ryan urged U.S. women to have more children, and Ross Douthat requested "More babies, please," they openly expressed what U.S. policymakers have been discussing for decades with greater discretion. Using technical language like "age structure," "dependency ratio," and "entitlement crisis," establishment think tanks are raising the alarm: if U.S. women don't have more children, we'll face an aging workforce, slack consumer demand, and a stagnant economy. Feminists generally believe that a prudish religious bloc is responsible for the fight over reproductive freedom in the U.S., but hidden behind this conventional explanation is a dramatic fight over women's reproductive labor. On one side, elite policymakers want an expanding workforce reared with a minimum of employer spending and a maximum of unpaid women's work. On the other side, women are refusing to produce children at levels desired by economic planners. With little access to childcare, family leave, health care, and with insufficient male participation, U.S. women are conducting a spontaneous birth strike. In other countries, panic over low birth rates has led governments to underwrite childbearing with generous universal programs, but in the U.S., women have not yet realized the potential of our bargaining position. When we do, it will lead to new strategies for winning full access to abortion and birth control, and for improving the difficult working conditions U.S. parents now face when raising children
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- 1965-
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- Brown, Jenny
- Dewey number
- 363.9/6
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- Birth control
- Reproductive rights
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- Birth strike : the hidden fight over women's work, Jenny Brown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-209) and index
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- Contents
- Introduction; International comparisons; Small government, big families; Is it a birth strike? women testify; Comstockery to the baby boom; Population panic to the baby bust; Longevity: crisis or blessing?; Immigration: "instant adults"; Reproduction and race; Cheap labor; Cannon fodder; Controlling the means of reproduction; Appendix: consciousness-raising questions
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 225 pages
- Isbn
- 9781629636382
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- Birth strike : the hidden fight over women's work, Jenny Brown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-209) and index
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- Introduction; International comparisons; Small government, big families; Is it a birth strike? women testify; Comstockery to the baby boom; Population panic to the baby bust; Longevity: crisis or blessing?; Immigration: "instant adults"; Reproduction and race; Cheap labor; Cannon fodder; Controlling the means of reproduction; Appendix: consciousness-raising questions
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- 23 cm
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- 225 pages
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- 9781629636382
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