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The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink by Shriver, Maria;Morgan, Olivia(Editor);Skelton, Karen(Editor) is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink about?
Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. 1 in 3 Americans today live in poverty or teeter on the brink. 70 million are women and the children who depend on them. The fragile economic status of millions of American women is the shameful secret of the modern era—yet these women are also our greatest hope for change, and our nation’s greatest undervalued asset. The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink asks—and answers—big questions. Why are millions of women financially vulnerable when others have made such great progress? Why are millions of women struggling to make ends meet even though they are hard at work? What is it about our nation—government, business, family, and even women themselves—that drives women to the financial brink? And what is at stake? To answer these questions, we examined in detail three major cultural and ecoomic changes over the past 50 years: Women work more outside the home, but still earn less than men. Women lead more families on their own. Women toda
Who reads The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Shriver, Maria;Morgan, Olivia(Editor);Skelton, Karen(Editor)
- Publisher
- RosettaBooks
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- Economics, Fiction, Political Science
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (275 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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