Gendered Lives : Gender Inequalities in Production and Reproduction /
Contributor(s): Scott, Jacqueline L [editor.] | Dex, Shirley [editor.].
Publisher: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, 2012Description: xiv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781849806268; 9781849806268:; 1849806268; 9781781004081 (pbk); 1781004080.Subject(s): Sex role | SexismDDC classification: 305.3Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224) and index.
Introduction : gender inequalities in production and reproduction / Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Heather Joshi and Anke C. Plagnol -- The childhood origins of adult socio-economic disadvantage : do cohort and gender matter? / John Hobcraft and Wendy Sigle-Rushton -- Changing career trajectories of women and men across time / Erzsebet Bukodi, Shirley Dex and Heather Joshi -- Halfway to gender equality in paid and unpaid work? : evidence from the multinational time-use study / Jonathan Gershuny and Man Yee Kan -- Financial togetherness and autonomy within couples / Fran Bennett, Jerome De Henau, Susan Himmelweit and Sirin Sung -- Global flows and local labour markets : precarious employment and migrant workers in the UK / Linda McDowell, Adina Batnitzky and Sarah Dyer -- Equality law and the limits of the 'business case' for addressing gender inequalities / Colm McLaughlin and Simon Deakin -- Work-family conflict and well-being in Northern Europe / Jacqueline Scott and Anke C. Plagnol -- Gender equality and work-family balance in a cross-national perspective / Jane Lewis.
This book examines how gender inequalities in contemporary societies are changing and how further changes towards greater gender equality might be achieved.