Women, work, and the family in Europe /
Contributor(s): Drew, Eileen P
| Emerek, Ruth | Mahon, Evelyn.
Publisher: London : Routledge, 1998Description: xvii, 230 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415153506 (hardcover); 9780415153508:; 0415153514 (pbk.).Subject(s): Work and family -- Government policy -- Europe | Work and family -- European Union countries | Family policy -- Europe | Women -- Employment -- Europe | Women -- Employment -- European Union countries | Women -- European Union countries -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 331.4 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and and index.
List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword / Sylvia Walby -- Introduction / Eileen Drew, Ruth Emerek and Evelyn Mahon -- Part I : re-conceptualising families -- 1 : re-conceptualising families -- 2 : changing family forms and the allocation of caring / Eileen Drew -- 3 : state policy and gender contracts : the Swedish experience / Yvonne Hirdman -- 4 : Greek family policy from a comparative perspective / Theodoros N. Papadopoulos -- 5 : recent changes in family policy in France : political trade-offs and economic constraints / Jeanne Fagnani -- 6 : paid work and care of older people : a UK perspective / Judith Phillips -- 7 : employment and family lives : equalities and inequalities / Julia Brannen -- Part II : restructuring labour markets -- 8 : employment, flexibility and gender / Eileen Drew and Ruth Emerek -- 9 : part-time employment in a European perspective / Susan McRae -- 10 : homeworking : new approaches to an old problem / Sheila Rowbotham and Jane Tate -- 11 : labour policies, economic flexibility and women's work : the Italian experience / Daniela del Boca -- 12 : atypical working time : examples from Denmark / Ruth Emerek -- 13 : workplace culture, family-supportive policies and gender differences / Lis Højgaard -- Part III : reconciling family and working life -- 14 : changing gender roles, state, work and family lives / Evelyn Mahon -- 15 : the modernisation of motherhood / Arnlung Leira -- 16 : class, mothers and equal opportunities to work / Evelyn Mahon -- 17 : working parents : experience from the Netherlands / Els Veenis -- 18 : are fathers changing? : Comparing some different images on sharing of childcare and domestic work / Dino Giovannini -- 19 : family orientation among men : a process of change in Sweden / Ulla Björnberg -- Bibliography -- Index.
Leading experts from across Europe examine a wide range of issues that are linked to women, their relationship to the labour market, the conflict of work and home and their role as partners and providers in families.