What Women Want: An Agenda for the Women's Movement

Deborah L. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford University. Rhode is the Ernest W

Passionately articulated, unsentimental and clear-eyed, Rhode proves that What Women Want -- whatever they may choose to call it -- is feminism."-Dahlia Lithwick, Supreme Court Correspondent, Slate "If you have any doubt that gender inequality persists in today's world, you won't after reading this evocative, data-packed book. "What Women Want brings new insights to longstanding questions of gender inequality. Correll, Director, Clayman Institute for Gender Research and Professor of Sociology, Stanford University "Whenever I need the latest statistic or the perfect quote on an extraordinarily broad range of feminist issues, I reach for the latest Deborah Rhode book." --Joan C. We are paid less, work harder, experience greater violence, report less vi

Feminism today is a movement that lacks leadership, unity, and definition, and it has gotten stuck in a boom and bust cycle when it comes to public opinion and action. Only by identifying the barriers (both internal and external) that remain, Deborah Rhode argues, can we begin to identify solutions. Despite significant progress over the last fifty years, equality is still a distant goal in the political, social, and economic spheres. A rigorously researched and well-written answer to the glut of gender-related books that have come onto the market recently, What Women Want comprehensively analyzes the challenges the feminist movement faces today. Combining sharp acade

Incredibly Useful History Spike 65 A book I will return to many times. It provides a comprehensive history of the contemporary women's movement and lays out in a clear and engaging fashion, the challenges that still lie ahead.. "Straight, No-Chaser, 2014 & Beyond > An Agenda." Michael GreenGold "WHAT WOMEN WANT / An Agenda for the Women's Movement, Circa 09.2014 is a "Straight, No Chaser" lead / read starting with how American Women fare worse than American Men on virtually every major dimension of social status, financial well-being, and physical safety. > Sexual violence remains common, and reproductive rights are by no means secure. >Women assume disproportionate burdens in the home and pay a heavy price in the workplace. >Yet these issues are not POLITICAL priorities. >Nor is there a CONSENSUS that there still is a SERIOUS problem. >