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Women And Employment |
Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Professor of Empirical Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK, Shirley Dex, Professor of Longitudinal Social Research in Education, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, UK and Heather Joshi, Professor of Economic and Developmental Demography, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, UK
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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
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2008
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400 pp
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978 1 84720 249 9
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978 1 84844 708 0
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