Home Alone: Is This the Best We Can Do? A Proposal to Amend Pending Parental Leave Legislation
Publication Title
Washington University Journal of Law & Policy
Abstract
Part I of this Note examines the history of parental leave in America. Part II analyzes that history to assess its ineffectiveness in achieving the goal of gender equality in the workplace. Part III proposes a solution to the problem of gendered patterns of care as reinforced by our current system of parental leave.
Recommended Citation
Caldwell G. Collins,
Home Alone: Is This the Best We Can Do? A Proposal to Amend Pending Parental Leave Legislation,
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Wash. U. J. L. & Pol’y
301
(2009),
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_journal_law_policy/vol29/iss1/11