Work, Welfare, and Women's Role as Mothers

Authors

Pamela Fiber, California State University, Fullerton
Jackie Filla, University of California, Riverside

Disciplines

Women's Studies

Abstract

The demand for legal equality for women in the twentieth century has been fraught with challenges and dilemmas. While advocates for equality insisted laws preventing women from full contractual rights be eliminated and that women be compensated equally for their labor, the political and social tides swept poor women responsible for their children into the mix. In addition to the dramatic influence on social policy, the demands for market equality have been met with slow movement. Women continue to act as caretakers of the home and children, and earn significantly less than men. Attempts to change this through law are evident in the policies of the 1990s, but their effects will be slow to take hold.

Recommended Citation

Fiber, Pamela and Filla, Jackie (2006) "Work, Welfare, and Women's Role as Mothers," Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 2.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/jift/vol1/iss1/2