Download or read book Development of Culture Welfare States and Women s Employment in Europe written by Birgit Pfau-Effinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This refreshing volume introduces a theory for explaining cross-national differences in the social practice of women (and men) in the areas of family and employment. This provides a theoretical framework for the ensuing comprehensive cross-national analysis of the degree and forms of labour market integration of women in three European countries - Finland, West Germany and the Netherlands - from the 1950s until 2000. Cross-national differences are explained with a focus on cultural change and the development of welfare state, labour markets, the family and social movements. It is evident that change took place along different development paths that were based on deep-rooted historical differences in the cultural ideals of the family. Such historical differences and their explanations also form part of the analysis. The results of this survey contribute to the further development of cross-national sociology on social change, social and gender inequality, welfare state, labour markets and family structures.
Download or read book Women s Employment and Welfare Regimes written by Ann Shola Orloff and published by Geneva : United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. This book was released on 2002 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extrait du résumé . "Dans les pays développés, l'emploi des femmes et les politiques qui les favorisent, le limitent ou l'ignorent sont aujourd'hui au coeur du débat politico-social. Les politiques sociales et d'autres interventions politiques ... ne sont pas les seuls facteurs à influer sur l'emploi des femmes ... . La politique sociale a aussi son importance, peut être moins pour développer l'emploi féminin que pour déterminer les modalités du travail des femmes, ..., et pour aider à cerner les enjeux d'une politique sociale dans laquelle les femmes ont leur place. A cet égard, bien que la part de la main-d'oeuvre féminine ait partout augmenter, les mesures et facteurs politiques ayant une incidence sur l'emploi féminin varient sensiblement d'un pays à l'autre. ... L'auteur s'est donné trois tâches, d'abord donner une vue d'ensemble des informations existantes sur la nature de l'emploi féminin et les politiques sociales qui s'y rapportent, notamment les grilles utilisées pour tenter de classer les politiques nationales par type de régime politique. Ensuite, étudier les possibilités qui s'offrent aux femmes lorsqu'elles ne peuvent pas prendre un travail rémunéré ... . Enfin, envisager une recherche qui tente de dégager les caractéristiques nationales des politiques touchant à l'emploi des femmes. Elle conclut par quelques réflexions sur la manière dont l'emploi féminin peut déboucher sur une plus grande égalité des sexes. L'unité thématique du document vient de l'attention portée aux liens entre la politique sociale, les caractéristiques de l'emploi féminin et l'égalités entre hommes et femmes. Empiriquement, l'accent a été mis sur les pays développés."
Download or read book Cliometrics of the Family written by Claude Diebolt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contributed volume applies cliometric methods to the study of family and households in order to derive global patterns and determine their impact on economic development. Family and households are a fundamental feature of societies and economies. They are found throughout history and are the place where key decisions on fertility, labour force participation, education, consumption are made. This is especially relevant for the position of women. The book gathers key insights from a variety of fields – economics, history, demography, anthropology, biology – to shed light on the relation between family organisation and the long-term process of economic development.
Download or read book Women s Employment in a Comparative Perspective written by Liset Van Dijk and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These comparative studies by internationally-known scholars in the United States, Hungary, Germany, and the Netherlands provide a cross-national examination of substantially differing circumstances--in hours, earnings, job level, childcare availability, parental leave, and the like--of women's employment. The book's dual focus on micro and macro approaches clarifies the extent to which these variances can be ascribed to differences in the institutional context of employment or to the individual characteristics of female employees. It thereby provides a valuable contribution both to gender studies and to studies on the sociology of work. Women's employment changed dramatically during the second half of the twentieth century. Countries in the northern hemisphere have faced similar trends in labor and employment, yet there are still many contrasts between them when it comes to women's work. In this volume, women's employment is studied in different institutional, structural, and social settings, with the intention of exploring the causes of the differences and similarities in women's employment in different countries and at different times. Three perspectives are used: the macro approach, which provides a thorough and focused understanding of the influence of the institutional context on women's work; the micro approach, which gives insight into the employment behavior of individual women who live in the same social or institutional context; and the macro-micro approach, which makes clear the relative importance to women's work of both individual characteristics and institutional context. While a good deal of information is available on women's employment, a cross-national comparison over time has been lacking. This book fills that all-important niche. Women's Employment in a Comparative Perspective thus has a special relevance for economists as well as sociologists and social work specialists. Tanja Van der Lippe is assistant professor of sociology at the Research School ICS of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Liset Van Dijk is senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Nivel.
Download or read book Gender and Welfare State Regimes written by Diane Sainsbury and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for scholars and students of political science ̧public policy ̧sociology ̧gender studies and social policy.
Download or read book Women s Employment and Welfare Regimes written by Ann Shola Orloff and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gendering Welfare States written by Diane Sainsbury and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1994-12-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can mainstream models and classifications be used in analyzing welfare states and gender? What sorts of modifications to traditional theory are required? These and other questions are addressed in this book - the first to synthesize the insights of feminist and mainstream research in examining the impact of gender on welfare state analysis and outcomes. The text also highlights the effect of welfare state policies on women and men. The international and interdisciplinary contributors approach the subject on two levels. First, they test the applicability of mainstream frameworks to new areas in analyzing gender. Second, they highlight possible reconceptualizations and innovative frameworks designed to provide gender-base
Download or read book Production Systems and Welfare Regimes written by Stacy Ann Porter and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who Cares written by Jane Jenson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the case of childcare policy, the contributors to this volume examine how public policy choices over the last three decades have been fashioned by specific understandings of the gendered division of labour."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Women s Work is Never Done written by Sylvia Bashevkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Social critics, policy makers, and the public in general frequently overlook the crucial status of women as the main recipients of welfare and as providers of paid and unpaid care. The eight original essays in this collection remedy this situation. By comparing welfare policy in advanced industrial countries and the welfare experiences of different populations of women--black or white, young and old--with that of the male experience, Sylvia Bashevkin and her contributors challenge the Moynihan report; the conservative fatherhood movement; and neoliberal philosophy, politics and practice. Women's Work is Never Done adds a new dimension to the important public discussion of women's status as citizens, disparities in welfare reform, and poverty in a globalized world.
Download or read book Welfare Regimes in South Eastern Europe written by Michael Sauer and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a contribution to comparative welfare state research. It offers an account of labor market and long-term care policies in Serbia and Croatia, and it illuminates issues that have, thus far, not been at the center of international research interest, despite the pressing need. The book provides a comprehensive picture of the structures, processes, and key challenges, as well as respective links, to recommended reforms. Dissertation. (Series: Human and Social Affairs in the EU / Mensch und Sozialordnung in der EU - Vol. 3) [Subject: Sociology, European Studies, Labor Studies]
Download or read book Women and Social Policies in Europe written by Jane E. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text aims to provide a thoroughly documented overview of social policies affecting women in Germany, Italy, Denmark, Britain, Ireland, Norway, France and Sweden. The central theme of the book is the relationship between women's paid and unpaid work, something very few European governments have been prepared explicitly to address as a social issue and which has yet to enter the European Commission's agenda.
Download or read book Women the State and Welfare written by Linda Gordon and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays about women and welfare in America, this book discusses how welfare programmes affect women and how gender relations have influenced the structure of such programmes. Issues such as race and class are also discussed.
Download or read book Women Men Work and Family in Europe written by R. Crompton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social changes including an increase in dual-earner families, declining fertility, and growing problems of work-life 'balance' are underway as more women, particularly mothers, enter and remain in paid employment. The authors explore this in a number of European countries (Britain, France, The Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Portugal).
Download or read book Welfare State Change written by Jane Lewis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-10-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of the Third Way reflects an attempt by many contemporary social democracies to forge a new political settlement which is fitted to the conditions of a modern society and new global economy, but which retains the goals of social cohesion and egalitarianism. It seeks to differentiate itself as distinct from the political ideologies of the New Right and Old Left. Though commonly linked to the US Democratic Party in the Clinton era, it can also be traced to the political discourses in European social democratic parties during the mid-1990s, most notably in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. In social policy terms the model attempts to transcend the old alternatives of the state and the market. Instead, civil society, government, and the market are viewed as interdependent and equal partners in the provision of welfare, and the challenge for government is to create equilibrium between these three pillars. The individual is to be 'pushed' towards self-help, and independent, active citizenship, while business and government must contribute to economic and social cohesion. This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of 'Third Way' social policy and policy processes in the welfare systems of industrialized economies, and examines the extent to which 'Third Way' ideology and institutional structures converge or vary in different national settings. It examines substantive areas of public policy in a broad comparative context of key trends and debates. By assessing the extent to which the post-war social contract in developed welfare states is being renegotiated, the text contributes to a better understanding of the current restructuring and modernization of the State. Finally the book explores the implications of the new politics of welfare for theorizing inequality, social justice, and the future of welfare.
Download or read book Working Mothers and the Welfare State written by Kimberly J. Morgan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States.
Download or read book Care Work written by Madonna Harrington Meyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Care Work is a collection of original essays on the complexities of providing care. These essays emphasize how social policies intersect with gender, race, and class to alternately compel women to perform care work and to constrain their ability to do so. Leading international scholars from a range of disciplines provide a groundbreaking analysis of the work of caring in the context of the family, the market, and the welfare state.
