Women and Employment

Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex and Heather Joshi

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Abstract: How is women’s employment shaped by family and domestic responsibilities? This book, written by leading experts in the field, examines twenty-five years of change in women’s employment and addresses the challenges facing women today.

Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 9781847202499
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Achieving Equality in the Knowledge Economy

Kate Purcell and Peter Elias

Ch 2 Changes in Women’s Occupations and Occupational Mobility Over 25 Years

Shirley Dex, Kelly Ward and Heather Joshi

Ch 3 Ethnic Differences in Women’s Labour Market Activity

Angela Dale, Joanne Lindley, Shirley Dex and Anthony Rafferty

Ch 4 Putting Women on the Research Agenda: The 1980 Women and Employment Survey

Jean Martin and Ceridwen Roberts

Ch 5 The New Dynamics of Family Formation and the Explosion of Childbearing Outside Marriage

John Ermisch

Ch 6 Changing Gender Role Attitudes

Jacqueline Scott

Ch 7 Working Full-Time After Motherhood

Susan McRae

Ch 8 Class Difference in Mothers’ Work Schedules and Assessments of their ‘Work–Life Balance’ in Dual-Earner Couples in Britain

Colette Fagan, Linda McDowell, Diane Perron, Kevin Ward and Kathryn Ray

Ch 9 Mothers’ Employment, Work–Life Conflict, Careers and Class

Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette

Ch 10 The Household Division of Labour: Changes in Families’ Allocation of Paid and Unpaid Work

Susan Harkness

Ch 11 Work–Family Balance Policies: Issues and Development in the UK 1997–2005 in Comparative Perspective

Jane Lewis

Ch 12 Women and Work in the UK: The Need for a Modernisation of Labour Market Institutions

Jill Rubery

Ch 13 The Regulation of Women’s Pay: From Individual Rights to Reflexive Law?

Simon Deakin and Colm McLaughlin

Ch 14 Migration, Employment and Gender Divisions of Labour

Linda McDowell, Adina Batnitzky and Sarah Dyer

Ch 15 Policy on Care: A Help or Hindrance to Gender Equality?

Susan Himmelweit

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