基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2008.
Full Description
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. The authors offer an innovative 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. They tackle issues relevant for future change, including gender inequalities and ethnic diversities, and confront contentious questions such as what is meant by work-life balance. The book provides new empirical research that both advances our understanding of the challenges posed by women's employment in our changing society and draws out the policy lessons that could improve economic and social wellbeing.
Providing dynamic analysis of employment-family inter relationships, Women and Employment will be of great relevance to social scientists and academics interested in employment and family as well as policymakers concerned with changing women's employment.
Contents
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 Women's Occupations and Occupational Mobility Over 25 Years
Shirley Dex, Kelly Ward and Heather Joshi
3. Ethnic Differences in Women's 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: WORK-LIFE BALANCE
7. Working Full-Time After Motherhood
Susan McRae
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 Perrons, Kathryn Ray and Kevin Ward
9. Mothers' Employment, Work-Life 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. Work-Family Balance Policies: Issues and Development in the UK 1997-2005 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 Women's 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
Index
