Award winning study on one of the most critical work-family balance issues

“Family Policies, Wage Structures, and Gender Gaps: Sources of Earnings Inequality in 20 Countries” by Hadas Mandel Moshe Semyonov

This study is worth wading through because it examines the effects of Family Policies on gender inequality in terms of earnings in 20 advanced societies (Canada included).  The authors find that family policies designed to decrease inequality actually have the paradoxical effect of increasing wage gaps in strong welfare states.  The study can be found at: http://www.asanet.org/galleries/default-file/Dec05ASRFeature.pdf