edited by Rosemary Crompton, Suzan Lewis, and Clare Lyonette.
New York
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
(289 p.)
Cover Contents List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction: The Unravelling of the 'Male Breadwinner' Model -- and Some of its Consequences 2 Evolutions and Approaches to Equitable Divisions of Paid Work and Care in Three European Countries: a Multi-level Challenge 3 Social Policy in Europe: its Impact on Families and Work 4 Fertility Rates and Mothers' Employment Behaviour in Comparative Perspective: Similarities and Differences in Six European Countries. 5 Fertility Decline, the Postponement of Childbearing and the Increase in Childlessness in Central and Eastern Europe: a Gender Equity Approach6 Main Patterns in Attitudes to the Articulation Between Work and Family Life: a Cross-National Analysis 7 Occupational Class, Country and the Domestic Division of Labour 8 Gender, Social Class and Work-Life Balance in the New Economy 9 Care Capital, Stress and Satisfaction 10 The Workplace as an Arena for Negotiating the Work-Family Boundary: a Cas.
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).",,,,,"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 inSocial 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 inSocial 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