"Comment on Ferber's "Women and Work: Issues of the 1980s""

by McCrate, Elaine (1983)

Abstract

The growing acceptance of this neoclassical analysis of the family requiresa careful and thorough feminist response. Marianne Ferber's (" Women and Work: Issues of the 1980s," Signs 8, no. 2 [Winter 1982]: 273-95) and Isabel Sawhill's review essays are important contributions to such a discussion. 2 Ferber and Sawhill address some of their criticisms, however, to relative strengths of the neoclassical approach; they tend to overlook important vulnerable points. Such failure to comment on critical concerns, particularly on the …

Keywords

Womens Work, Female Labour, Gender, Gendered Labour

Themes

Women and Work

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• https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/494060

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