Taxes Are a Woman's Issue: Reframing the Debate

For every woman who pays taxes and uses public services, and every man who cares about an effective and fair tax system, Taxes Are a Woman’s Issue reveals the U.S. as a welfare nation, whether you are rich, poor, a corporation or an individual, and critiques a tax structure that penalizes over half of tax payers. The National Council for Research on Women and authors Mimi Abramovitz and Sandra Morgen dispel myths about the current welfare system and expose how the IRS-supported tax system was created in and caters to a time before women entered the work force.

A reader-friendly yet authoritative analysis of how U.S. tax policy affects - and often disadvantages - women.

Mimi Abramovitz is a professor of social policy at the Hunter College School of Social Work and at the Social Welfare Doctoral Program, City University of New York. She has written extensively on the issues of women, poverty and social policy, including Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the U.S. Sandra Morgen combines her position as director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society with a position as a professor in the Anthropology department at the University of Oregon. Additionally, she directs the CSWS Women in the Northwest Research Initiative, the main project of which for has been an in-depth study of welfare restructuring in Oregon.