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The XX Factor: How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World
By Wolf, Alison
- ISBN
- 9780307590404
- Publisher
- Crown
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Reviewed on October 1, 2013 | Social Sciences
Wolf (Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management, King's Coll., London) observes that in the West, well-educated men marry well-educated women, that these women have fewer children than did women of earlier generations, and that these elite families buy domestic labor. Elite women now work for wages, and, therefore, "old-style female altruism is a fading memory." But Wolf tells readers little that's new, and she fails to explain how to rectify the inequalities she observes...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
