Women, Marriage and Motherhood in the United States: Allocating Responsibility in a Changing World
@article{Fineman2011WomenMA,
title={Women, Marriage and Motherhood in the United States: Allocating Responsibility in a Changing World},
author={M. Fineman},
journal={Singapore journal of legal studies},
year={2011},
pages={1}
}The lesson from the United States is that egalitarian law reform alone is inadequate to achieve gender equality, be it at home or in the workplace. Formal equality may be useful in defining some relations between adults, but family dynamics, as well as the realisation that state and market institutions must be responsive to human dependency and vulnerability, must also be factored into considerations of what is needed in the way of reforms. For example, merely encouraging egalitarian family… Expand