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Women and employment : changing lives and new challenges
Herausgegeben von:
Scott, Jacqueline L.
Cheltenham [u. a.]:
Elgar
,
2008
,
375 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Herausgegeben von: | Scott, Jacqueline L. |
| Jahr: | 2008 |
| Maße: | 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 1847202497 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| How is women's employment shaped by family and domestic responsibilities? This book examines twenty five years of change in women's employment in Great Britain and addresses the challenges facing women today. It offers an analysis of how global changes including new migration processes, educational expansion, transnational labour markets, technological advances, and the global economy affect women's labour market experiences in Great Britain. It tackles issues relevant for future change, including gender inequalities and ethnic diversitiesand confronts such contentious questions as what work-life balance means? One contribution analyses "migration, employment and gender divisions of labour", another one explores "ethnic differences in womens labour market activity". The book provides new empirical research that advances the understanding of the challenges posed by women's employment in the changing society and draws out the policy lessons that could improve economic and social well-being. Contents: Introduction: Changing Lives and New Challenges (Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Heather Joshi, Kate Purcell and Peter Elias) PART I: WOMEN AND EMPLOYMENT: ASSESSING PROGRESS ON EQUALITY 1. Achieving Equality in the Knowledge Economy (Kate Purcell and Peter Elias) 2. Changes in Womens Occupations and Occupational Mobility Over 25 Years (Shirley Dex, Kelly Ward and Heather Joshi) 3. Ethnic Differences in Womens Labour Market Activity (Angela Dale, Joanne Lindley, Shirley Dex and Anthony Rafferty) PART II: DYNAMICS OF EMPLOYMENT AND FAMILY ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE 4. Putting Women on the Research Agenda: The 1980 Women and Employment Survey (Jean Martin and Ceridwen Roberts) 5. The New Dynamics of Family Formation and the Explosion of Childbearing Outside Marriage (John Ermisch) 6. Changing Gender Role Attitudes (Jacqueline Scott) PART III: WORKLIFE BALANCE 7. Working Full-Time After Motherhood (Susan McRae) 8. Class Difference in Mothers Work Schedules and Assessments of their WorkLife Balance in Dual-Earner Couples in Britain (Colette Fagan, Linda McDowell, Diane Perrons, Kathryn Ray and Kevin Ward) 9. Mothers Employment, WorkLife Conflict, Careers and Class (Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette) 10. The Household Division of Labour: Changes in Families Allocation of Paid and Unpaid Work (Susan Harkness) 11. WorkFamily Balance Policies: Issues and Development in the UK 19972005 in Comparative Perspective (Jane Lewis) PART IV: WAYS FORWARD 12. Women and Work in the UK: The Need for a Modernisation of Labour Market Institutions (Jill Rubery) 13. The Regulation of Womens Pay: From Individual Rights to Reflexive Law? (Simon Deakin and Colm McLaughlin) 14. Migration, Employment and Gender Divisions of Labour (Linda McDowell, Adina Batnitzky and Sarah Dyer) 15. Policy on Care: A Help or Hindrance to Gender Equality? (Susan Himmelweit) | |
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