Increasing Class Disparities Among Women and the Politics of Gender Equity

Although many readers of and contributors to this volume come already interested in issues of gender and class inequality, the two are in fact rarely considered together. This chapter’s primary objective is to make the case for why they should be. In particular, I focus on the need for contemporary gender inequality to be understood within the context of rising earnings and income inequality in the United States, or what I will refer to as rising class inequality because I consider earnings and income to be among the central components of one’s class position (along with assets, education, and occupation, which I also discuss briefly).

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