The Shriver Report : A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink.

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Julie's Story -- Preface -- By Neera Tanden -- PART I: HOW WE GOT HERE -- POWER -- Powerful and Powerless -- By Maria Shriver -- 'When We Were 9, We Were Honest' By Carol Gilligan, Ph.D. -- Gender Equality Is a Myth! By Beyoncé Knowles-Carter -- Time to Wake Up: Stop Blaming Poverty on the Poor By Barbara Ehrenreich -- Are Women Devalued by Religions? By Sister Joan Chittister -- THE WORKPLACE -- A Woman's Place Is in the Middle Class -- By Heather Boushey -- The Gender Wage Gap: A Civil Rights Issue for Our Time By Maya Harris -- Making the Care Economy a Caring Economy By Ai-jen Poo -- Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Broke By Danielle Moodie-Mills -- The Changing Face of American Women By Angela Glover Blackwell -- Empowering Latinas By Eva Longoria -- THE FAMILY -- Marriage, Motherhood, and Men -- By Ann O'Leary -- America's Working Single Mothers: An Appreciation By LeBron James -- To the Brink and Back By Catherine Emmanuelle -- Marriage and Children: Another View By Ron Haskins -- What About the Fathers? By Dr. Kathryn Edin -- A Call to Men: Ending Men's Violence Against Women By Tony Porter -- Women and Poverty: The Role of Lawyers and Family Law By John Bouman and Wendy Pollack -- Evolution of the Modern American Family By Stephanie Coontz -- EDUCATION -- A 21st-Century Education for All Women -- By Dr. Anthony P. Carnevale and Dr. Nicole Smith -- Turning Poverty Around: Training Parents to Help Their Kids By Jennifer Garner -- Living the Head Start Dream By Almeta Keys -- Preschool for All: The Path to America's Middle-Class Promise By Secretary Arne Duncan and Secretary Kathleen Sebelius -- Afterschool Programs: Investing in Our Cities by Investing in Our Kids By Mayor Betsy Price -- Higher Education: Interrupting the Cycle of Poverty By Eduardo J. Padrón, Ph.D. -- Nikki's Story.

PART II: WHY WE MUST PUSH BACK -- The Consequences of Living on the Brink -- The Chronic Stress of Poverty: Toxic to Children By Nadine Burke Harris, M.D. -- The Trap: Mental Illness and Women in Poverty By Ron Manderscheid, Ph.D. -- Armed and Vulnerable: Women in the U.S. Military By Sonya Borrero, M.D. -- Human Trafficking and Slavery in the United States: 'You Don't See the Chains' By Jada Pinkett Smith -- Britani's Story -- PART III: THE NATION REIMAGINED -- A New America that Cares -- By Anne-Marie Slaughter -- America's Promise, One Woman at a Time By Marianne Cooper, Ph.D. -- PUBLIC SOLUTIONS -- Putting Women at the Center of Policymaking -- By Melissa Boteach and Shawn Fremstad, and introducing the Shriver Corps -- We Have Blown a Huge Hole in Our Safety Net By Peter Edelman -- The Circle of Protection: Balancing the Budget Does Not Require Burdening the Poor By Leith Anderson -- From VISTA Corps to Shriver Corps: Providing Solutions for 50 Years By Shirley Sagawa -- A Hand Up, Not a Handout By Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter -- On the Brink with a Disabled Child By Katie Bentley -- PRIVATE SOLUTIONS -- What If Employers Put Women at the Center of Their Workplace Policies? -- By Ellen Galinsky, James T. Bond, and Eve Tahmincioglu, and introducing the Thrive Index -- Smart Business: Reviving the American Dream By Howard Schultz -- Empower Women and You Recharge the World By Muhtar Kent -- Microfinancing Women: Great Return on Investment By Tory Burch -- PERSONAL SOLUTIONS -- Personal Action, Collective Impact -- By Anne Mosle and introducing Life Ed -- When Working Women Thrive, Our Nation Thrives By Sheryl Sandberg -- When Women Achieve Their Full Potential, So Will America By Senator Kirsten Gillibrand -- PART IV: IT'S TIME TO PUSH BACK -- Where Do We Go from Here? -- By Olivia Morgan and Karen Skelton.

10 Things You Can Do to Power A Woman's Nation -- Increasing Economic Opportunities for Women: The Right Thing to Do and the Smart Thing to Do -- By Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Failure to Adapt to Changing Families Leaves Women Economically Vulnerable -- By Anna Greenberg, David Walker, Alex Lundry, and Alicia Downs -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors.

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