Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality by Rebecca Asher (Paperback, 2011)

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If we supposedly live in an age of equality, why are women still left holding the baby? ver the last fifty years, much has been won in the battle for equality between the sexes; many young women journey through education and employment without confronting the problems that dogged previous generations until they have their first child. his moment is life-changing for many wonderful reasons, but it also marks the point where women s and men s lives dramatically polarise in ways that can disadvantage both. Statistics show that women s career progression and parity of pay with their male colleagues dramatically tail off after they have children and that attitudes to men playing an equal role in the care of their children have not changed as much as might be expected. Feminism still hasn t cracked the family. The consequences of this enduring inequality in the home reach beyond the individuals into society as a whole. anging from maternity and paternity leave to school and beyond, Shattered exposes the inequalities supported by the state, business and the media while also putting forward ideas for the positive changes possible on both political and personal levels. By dismantling