Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Driven Apart -- 1 The Double-Edged Nature of Women's Employment Inequality -- 2 Citizenship, Motherhood, and Employment in the Wartime and Welfare States -- 3 The Royal Commission on the Status of Women -- 4 A Just Society? The Trudeau Government's Response to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women -- 5 Redefining the Issues: Systemic Discrimination and National Child Care Policies in Trudeau's Final Term -- 6 The Royal Commission on Equality in Employment -- 7 Breaking the Links: The Mulroney Government's Response to the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment -- 8 Tiny Timid Steps: Employment Equity and Child Care in Mulroney's Second Term -- 9 Creating Opportunity? The Chrétien Government's Approach to Employment Equity and Child Care -- 10 Linked Together, Yet Driven Apart -- Appendix A Research Interviews -- Appendix B Turning Points in Canadian Policy Development on Women's Employment Equality and Child Care -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.