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This edited collection assembles cutting-edge comparative policy research on contemporary policy research on contemporary policies relevant to gender and workplace issues. Contributors analyze gender-related employment policies, including parental leave, maternity programs, sexual harassment, work/life balance, and gender mainstreaming. Equity in the Workplace thoroughly illustrates how the juxtaposition of a variety of research methodologies focused on a common theme can lead to a richer, multilayered understanding of a complex issue.

Foreword Gender and Civil Society

Paul Rich

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction Gendering Workplace Policy Analysis

(28)

Heidi Gottfried and Laura Reese

Part I Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Workplace Policy

1 Globalization, Gender, and Work: Perspectives on Global Regulation

(24)

Ilse Lenz

2 Policy Strategies in a Global Era for Gendered Workplace Equity

(24)

Sylvia Walby

3 European Gender Mainstreaming: Promises and Pitfalls of Transformative Policy

(26)

Alison Woodward

Part II Implications of Gender in the Workplace

4 Institutionally Embedded Gender Models: Re-regulating Breadwinner Models in Germany and Japan

103

(28)

Heidi Gottfried and Jacqueline O Reilly

5 Career Advancement Choices of Female Managers in U.S. Local Governments

131

(20)

Wendy L. Hassett

6 An Assessment of Women's Acceptance as Breadwinners in the United States

151

(32)

Heidi M. Berggren

Part III Reconciliation of Work and Family Life: Maternity, Parental, and Family Leave

7 Parental Leave and Gender Equality: What Can the United States Learn from the European Union?

183

(32)

Linda Haas

8 Solving a Problem or Tinkering at the Margins? Work, Family, and Caregiving

215

(28)

Steven K. Wisensale

9 The Employment Insurance Model: Maternity, Parental, and Sickness Benefits in Canada

243

(38)

Eileen Zrzcinski

10 Erosion of the Male-Breadwinner Model? Female Labor-Market Participation and Family-Leave Policies in Germany

281

(24)

Katherine Bird and Karin Gottschall

11 Globalization and Work/Life Balance: Gendered Implications of New Initiatives at a U.S. Multinational in Japan

305

(20)

Glenda S. Roberts

Part IV Specific Applications of Workplace Policies: Gender Equity in the Workplace

12 Europeanizing the Military: The ECJ and the Transformation of the Bundeswehr

325

(16)

Ulrike Liebert

13 Implementing Sexual Harassment Law in the United States and Germany

341

(24)

Kathrin Zippel

14 Sexual Harassment Policies and Employee Preferences in Local U.S. Government

365

(30)

Laura Reese and Karen E. Lindenberg

Index

395

(6)

About the Contributors

401

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