Preface
On April 2, 2006, in the Toronto Star, a feature article entitled "Working Girls, Broken Society" is published. This article examines a recent theory by Professor Alison Wolf, a professor of public sector management at King's College, London, and the author of Does Education Matter? Myths about Education and Economic Growth. Her thesis contends that women's gradual access to equal opportunity in the workplace has led to serious negative consequences. Wolf argues that the end of the 'marriage bar' in many industrialized Western nations--precipitated in 1945 by English legislation that permitted female teachers and civil servants to stay employed if they ...