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Social Justice and Gender Equality: Rethinking Development Strategies and Macroeconomic Policies, edited by Günseli Berik, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, and Ann Zammit. New York: Routledge, 2008. 256 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-415-95651-2 (hbk.). US$105.00.

Social Justice and Gender Equality: Rethinking Development Strategies and Macroeconomic Policies,... BO OK REVIEWS reached a level that made staying out of the job market a less attractive alternative, even for many women with young children. Many aspects of women’s inferior position remain intact; the book fails to pay much attention to important things that have not changed. While women with professional credentials have seen great improvements in employment opportunities, those without a college degree have been unable to desegregate the better-paying occupations that do not require one. They have made little headway in the construction trades, jobs in transportation, utilities, the more lucrative jobs in retail sales, police and firefighting, non-retail sales, and machine repair work. One of the examples of discrimination that should be most obvious to everybody’s naked eye – the continued segregation by sex of staffs of restaurant waiters – persists unabated. Affirmative action, the only real remedy for race and sex discrimination aside from expensive and chancy lawsuits, is not discussed at all in this book. It is merely listed in a single passage as among the ‘‘hot button issues.’’ The book is also silent on where we should be going from here. The rise in single parenthood makes more urgent the need to end http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Feminist Economics Taylor & Francis

Social Justice and Gender Equality: Rethinking Development Strategies and Macroeconomic Policies, edited by Günseli Berik, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, and Ann Zammit. New York: Routledge, 2008. 256 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-415-95651-2 (hbk.). US$105.00.

Zulfiqar, Ghazal
Feminist Economics , Volume 17 (3): 5 – Jul 1, 2011
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10.1080/13545701.2011.584307
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BO OK REVIEWS reached a level that made staying out of the job market a less attractive alternative, even for many women with young children. Many aspects of women’s inferior position remain intact; the book fails to pay much attention to important things that have not changed. While women with professional credentials have seen great improvements in employment opportunities, those without a college degree have been unable to desegregate the better-paying occupations that do not require one. They have made little headway in the construction trades, jobs in transportation, utilities, the more lucrative jobs in retail sales, police and firefighting, non-retail sales, and machine repair work. One of the examples of discrimination that should be most obvious to everybody’s naked eye – the continued segregation by sex of staffs of restaurant waiters – persists unabated. Affirmative action, the only real remedy for race and sex discrimination aside from expensive and chancy lawsuits, is not discussed at all in this book. It is merely listed in a single passage as among the ‘‘hot button issues.’’ The book is also silent on where we should be going from here. The rise in single parenthood makes more urgent the need to end

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