Women's Employment in a Comparative Perspective

by Van der Lippe,Tanja

• ISBN13: 9780202306568
• ISBN10: 0202306569
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-01-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(14)
Women's Employment in a Comparative Perspective
Tanja van der Lippe
Liset van Dijk
PART I: MACRO APPROACH	15	(92)
Conflicts of Gender and Class	19	(18)
Paradoxes of Women's Occupational Mobility in Post-1989 Hungary
Julia Szalai
Macro Changes in Public Childcare Provision, Parental Leave, and Women's Employment	37	(22)
An International Comparison
Liset van Dijk
Work-Family Arrangements in Organizations	59	(26)
An International Comparison
Laura den Dulk
Organizations, Equal Opportunity Policies, and the Position of Women	85	(22)
The Case of the Netherlands
Chantal Remery
PART II: MICRO APPROACH	107	(68)
How Do Children Matter?	109	(42)
A Comparison of Gender Earnings Inequality for Young Adults in the Former East Germany and the Former East Germany and the Former West Germany
Heike Trappe
Rachel A. Rosenfeld
Women's Employment and Care of Children in the United States	151	(24)
Sandra L. Hofferth
PART III: MACRO-MICRO APPROACH	175	(100)
Harmonizing Work and Family in the European Union	179	(24)
Public Perceptions of Children as an Obstacle to Women's Employment
April Brayfield
Rachel K. Jones
Marina A. Adler
Are Secondary Part-Time Jobs Marginalized?	203	(18)
Job Characteristics of Women Employed Less Than Twenty Hours a Week in the European Union
Kea G. Tijdens
The Effect of Individual and Institutional Constraints on Hours of Paid Work of Women	221	(24)
An International Comparison
Tanja van der Lippe
Women and Men in State-Socialist and Market-Regulated Societies	245	(20)
Gender Differences in Ascription and Achievement in the First Job
Susanne Rijken
Harry B.G. Ganzeboom
Conclusion	265	(10)
Liset van Dijk
Tanja van der Lippe
Index	275