Women and Politics

The Pursuit of Equality

Women and Politics is a comprehensive text examining womens use of politics in pursuit of gender equality. The book is organized around the paradox of gender equality. The revised fifth edition includes significant updates to the scholarship, artwork, and current challenges to gender equality.

Women and Politics: The Pursuit of Equality is a comprehensive text examining womens use of politics in pursuit of gender equality. The book is organized around the paradox of gender equality: the need to reconcile demands for equality with biological differences between women and men. Resolving this paradox has proceeded along two paths: the legal equality approach relies on the law to make women and men the same, while the fairness approach recognizes differences and works to ensure women are not disadvantaged relative to men. The texts in-depth analysis and clear presentation of theory and histor