عنوان

Women, men, work, and family in Europe

(Number (ISBN

0230800831

(Number (ISBN

9780230800830

Number

b386756

Title Proper

Women, men, work, and family in Europe

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Rosemary Crompton, Suzan Lewis, and Clare Lyonette.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(289 p.)

Text of Note

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.

Text of Note

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

Electronic books; Cross-cultural studies

Rosemary Crompton

Clare Lyonette

Suzan Lewis

Electronic name

[Book]

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