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The gender of capital: how families perpetuate wealth inequality

Bessière, Céline; Gollac, Sibylle; Rogers, Juliette

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The Family as an Economic Institution -- Family Reproduction Versus Women's Wealth -- Acquit the Strong and Condemn the Weak -- Sexist Accounting under Cover of Egalitarian Law -- Tax Avoidance and Family Peace, at the Expense of -- Women -- Can the Courts Make Up for Wealth Inequality? -- The Particular Hardships of Proletarian Ex-Wives.

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The gender of capital: how families perpetuate wealth inequality

Bessière, Céline; Gollac, Sibylle; Rogers, Juliette

"Why do women accumulate less wealth than men? Why do marital separations impoverish women while they do not prevent men from becoming wealthy? This groundbreaking work approaches the institution of family from a materialist point of view, breaking with the dominant theory of modern, economically disinterested family relations. It takes seriously the economists, in the wake of Thomas Piketty, who observe a return to property inequality, based on the legacy of capitalism in the twenty-first century. It reconsiders the effectivity of legal changes that profess formal equality between men and women while condoning inequality in practice."

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