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Getting Paid While Taking Time : The Women's Movement and the Development of Paid Family Leave Policies in the United States /

"The United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide paid family leave at the national level for either men or women. In the more than two decades since the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act, there have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to exp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sholar, Megan Anne, 1978-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Women's movements and the passage of family leave policies
  • The passage of the national Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
  • From the FMLA to the FAMILY Act : family leave policy at the national level since 1993
  • Success in the states : paid family leave in California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and New York
  • When paid family leave fails to pass in the states : Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, and Hawaii
  • The future of family leave in the United States.