Work/Family Policy Stratification: The Examples of Family Support and Family Leave

Author: Wexler S.

Source: Qualitative Sociology, Volume 20, Number 2, 1997 , pp. 311-322(12)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

In the past decade the United States Congress has debated and passed legislative policies concerned with women's work, both in the family and in the labor force. The Family Support Act of 1988 and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 fall into this category of legislative policy. A comparative study of Congressional testimony in each case reveals that these two pieces of legislation are excellent examples of how federal policies—and the debates which fashion these policies—maintain and promote a system of policy stratification that perpetuates differences based on gender, race, class and marital and occupational status.

Keywords: family policy; family support; family leave; welfare reform

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Heller School, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254-9110; wexler@binah.cc.brandeis.edu

Publication date: 1997-01-01