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Introduction: Changing Lives and New Challenges
Jacqueline Scott
,
Shirley Dex
,
Heather Joshi
,
Peter Elias
, and
Kate Purcell
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Publication Date:
30 Jul 2008
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Social And Political Science 2010 and before
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781848442931.00006
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Women and Employment
Editors:
Jacqueline Scott
,
Shirley Dex
, and
Heather Joshi
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Publication Date:
30 Jul 2008
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9781847202499
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9781848442931
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781848442931
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Table of Contents
Front Matter
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Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Changing Lives and New Challenges
PART I: WOMEN AND EMPLOYMENT: ASSESSING PROGRESS ON EQUALITY
Chapter 1: Achieving Equality in the Knowledge Economy
Chapter 2: Changes in Women’s Occupations and Occupational Mobility Over 25 Years
Chapter 3: Ethnic Differences in Women’s Labour Market Activity
PART II: DYNAMICS OF EMPLOYMENT AND FAMILY ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE
Chapter 4: Putting Women on the Research Agenda: The 1980 Women and Employment Survey
Chapter 5: The New Dynamics of Family Formation and the Explosion of Childbearing Outside Marriage
Chapter 6: Changing Gender Role Attitudes
PART III: WORK–LIFE BALANCE
Chapter 7: Working Full-Time After Motherhood
Chapter 8: Class Difference in Mothers’ Work Schedules and Assessments of their ‘Work–Life Balance’ in Dual-Earner Couples in Britain
Chapter 9: Mothers’ Employment, Work–Life Conflict, Careers and Class
Chapter 10: The Household Division of Labour: Changes in Families’ Allocation of Paid and Unpaid Work
Chapter 11: Work–Family Balance Policies: Issues and Development in the UK 1997–2005 in Comparative Perspective
PART IV: WAYS FORWARD
Chapter 12: Women and Work in the UK: The Need for a Modernisation of Labour Market Institutions
Chapter 13: The Regulation of Women’s Pay: From Individual Rights to Reflexive Law?
Chapter 14: Migration, Employment and Gender Divisions of Labour
Chapter 15: Policy on Care: A Help or Hindrance to Gender Equality?
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Diversity and Management
Development Studies
Family and Gender Policy
Sociology and Social Policy
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Economics of Social Policy
Family and Gender
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