Jody Heymann’s states her argument early in the book, Unfinished Work - Building Equality and Democracy in an Era of Working Families. From the section - Inequalities at Work and Home: Social Class and Gender Divides – Heymann makes it clear.

“[U]ntil we address the needs of working families, we will be unable to successfully provide equal opportunities for women and men, poor and middle-class children” (91)

Her position is supported by overwhelming statistical information, which supports the commonly acknowledged gender inequalities in the workplace and in family responsibilities in the household. (103-106)
 
The section from her excerpt – Making Changes Necessary for Equality – spelled out changes for the American cultural psyche, which is needed for an egalitarian society; for gender, class, education, work place and benefits, and health and nurture caregivers. She correctly identifies the contemporary American, pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootstrap, mindset, which has always been fundamental to Angloism and its societal applications, but has been unsuccessful as a society philosophy. (116)

Heymann continues with her thesis of failed American social welfare administration in – Society’s Best Prospect: An Equal Chance for all Children and Adults – and stresses the three things America needs to “re-examine” on a societal basis in its approach to inequality.