Rethinking Gender Work And Care In A New Europe

Author : Triin Roosalu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137371096

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Rethinking Gender, Work and Care in a New Europe by Triin Roosalu Pdf

Given the growing importance of Eastern European countries in the development of the EU, there is an urgent need to reconstruct the recent dynamic developments in women's work and care in these societies, and the socio-political determinants thereof. Considering their specific cultural, economic and historical development, it can be assumed that the trends and determinants of women's labour market trajectories in CEE countries differ significantly from those in the other European countries that have frequently made up the basis for established theories in social and labour market research. This being the case, can 'standard' theoretical approaches, mostly modelled on evidence from Western Europe, be transferred to the analysis of Eastern European countries? This edited collection scrutinises pivotal aspects of women's careers in Eastern Europe, providing a detailed overview of trends and determinants of women's employment in Eastern Europe, and reflecting critically on theoretical approaches in social and labour market research.

Author : Diane Perrons
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845428976

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Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy by Diane Perrons Pdf

Contemporary societies are characterised by new and more flexible working patterns, new family structures and widening social divisions. This book explores how these macro-level changes affect the micro organisation of daily life, with reference to working patterns and gender divisions in Northern and Western Europe and the United States.

Author : Giovanni Razzu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317327943

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Gender Inequality in the Eastern European Labour Market by Giovanni Razzu Pdf

Under communism there was, in the countries of Eastern Europe, a high level of gender equality in the labour market, particularly in terms of high participation rates by women. The transition from communism has upset this situation, with different impacts in the different countries. This book presents a comprehensive overview of gender and the labour market since the fall of communism in a wide range of Eastern European countries. Each country chapter describes the nature of inequality in the particular country, and goes on to examine the factors responsible for this, including government policies, changing social attitudes, levels of educational attainment and the impact of motherhood. Overall, the book provides an interesting comparison to the situation in Western developed countries, outlining differences and similarities. No one single Eastern European model emerges while, as in Western developed countries, a range of experiences and trends is the norm.

Author : Gabriele Carapezza Figlia,Ljubinka Kovačević,Eleonor Kristoffersson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783031140921

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Gender Perspectives in Private Law by Gabriele Carapezza Figlia,Ljubinka Kovačević,Eleonor Kristoffersson Pdf

This book discusses prominent and controversial gender-related issues across the fields of family law, tort law, labour law, civil procedure law, ADR and private international law. An important critical assumption made by the authors is that the gender equality perspective has been largely neglected in several branches of private law, since scholars researching the intersection between gender and legal studies are mostly focused on public law and human rights law. In light of that, the book contributes not only to the deconstruction of gender-blind private law, but also to the development of a gender-competent analysis of the key branches of private law, starting with private international law. Gender perspective in family law is analyzed on the basis of gendered and heteronormative operations of family law with reference to the formation of legally recognized relationships, the establishment of legal parenthood, the division of marital property after a divorce, and the arrangements for post-separation parenting. Also, regulation of family matters in Indian society and the gender equality perspective from the principle of the child’s best interest are considered. As far as tort law is concerned, the book addresses compensation for damages suffered by women performing unpaid household work. Further, it contains papers dedicated to the following labour law issues: the genesis of labor law and its capacity to contribute either to worsening gender inequality in the world of work or to promoting gender equality; gender segregation in the labour market and its connection to family-friendly policies in the European Union; sexual harassment at work; and the impact of work digitalization on gender-related labour law issues. Lastly, the authors analyze gender equality in civil procedural law, as well as in mediation as a tool for encouraging the peaceful settlement of disputes. The book is intended to improve awareness of the wide range of private law issues that are important for understanding the ways in which gender inequality shapes everyday experiences, while also presenting critical considerations of the key private law instruments for achieving gender equality.

Author : Ali Hajighasemi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789905564

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European Welfare States and Globalization by Ali Hajighasemi Pdf

This timely book assesses how Europe’s welfare states have dealt with the challenges of globalisation and the financial crisis. It asks whether the European Union has adopted a general strategy for dealing with four major threats to the sustainable development of European societies: the employability of a growing number of redundant workers, an aging population, low birth rates and the persistent problem of gender inequality. The book will be an important read for social policy scholars, particularly those focusing on European welfare states, how they differ and lessons to be learnt from them. It also highlights key lessons from a broad range of case studies to help policymakers in understanding how and where improvements may be made in the future.

Author : Trudie Knijn,Manuela Naldini
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788113168

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Gender and Generational Division in EU Citizenship by Trudie Knijn,Manuela Naldini Pdf

Family law, gender equality, care arrangements and the consequences of demographic change have long been on the agenda of the European Union. However, these are coloured by national and cultural factors more than any other disputes, and form a barrier to the equalising of status for European citizens. Using an interdisciplinary approach, and bringing together law scholars, political scientists and sociologists, this book looks at the implications of the categorisation of identity in the European Union, and what they mean for the realisation of citizens’ rights throughout the EU.

Author : Tomasz Inglot
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822988670

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Mothers, Families or Children? Family Policy in Poland, Hungary, and Romania, 1945-2020 by Tomasz Inglot Pdf

Mothers, Families, or Children? is the first comparative-historical study of family policies in Poland, Hungary, and Romania from 1945 until the eve of the global pandemic in 2020. The book highlights the emergence, consolidation, and perseverance of three types of family policies based on “mother-orientation” in Poland, “family orientation” in Hungary, and “child-orientation” in Romania. It uses a new theoretical framework to identify core and contingent clusters of benefits and services in each country and trace their development across time and under different political regimes, before and after 1989. It also examines and compares policy continuity and change with special attention to institutions, ideas, and actors involved in decision making and reform. As family policies continue to evolve in the era of European Union membership and new governmental and societal actors emerge, this study reveals mechanisms that help preserve core family policy clusters while allowing reform in contingent ones in each country.

Author : Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Convergence
ISBN : 9781788978071

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Towards Convergence in Europe by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead Pdf

This book aims to answer a number of important questions. To what extent have European countries converged or diverged with EU-wide economic and social indicators over the past 20 years? What have been the drivers of convergence? Why do some countries lag behind, while others experience continuous upward convergence? Why are these trajectories not always linear? Particular attention is paid to the role of institutions, actors and industrial relations – focusing on the resources and strategies of governments, employers and trade unions – in nudging EU countries onto an upward convergence path.

Author : Brandth, Berit,Kvande, Elin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781529201581

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Designing Parental Leave Policy by Brandth, Berit,Kvande, Elin Pdf

This compelling book examines parental leave policies in Nordic countries, looking at how these laws encourage men towards life courses with greater care responsibilities. It considers the impact that these policies have had on gender equality and how they have led to a re-gendering of men by promoting ‘caring masculinities’.

Author : Eva Maria Hinterhuber,Jana Günther
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782832543931

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Citizenship and Democratization: Perspectives from Different Gender-Theoretical Approaches by Eva Maria Hinterhuber,Jana Günther Pdf

The year 1918 was significant in many ways, seeing the end of World War 1. At the same time, the impact and transformational effects of this event enabled civil society activists and politically institutionalised actors in European countries to pick up the threads of democratic social movements and parliamentary aspirations, and make use of “political opportunity structures” to obtain citizen rights for larger parts of the population. One result of this process – albeit with a difference between European states – was that more groups in society gained suffrage. Amongst those were large sections of the working class and women. While the vote was won for some new social groups in European societies, others were still excluded. After one centennium of struggle for political participation, we would like to discuss specific problems of politics of belonging. The question concerning the full recognition of citizen rights was and continually is connected to ideas of a specific membership of a nation state, a fact that denotes the particular problem of membership and non-membership and of inside and outside. This Research Topic will take account of this special field of tension of democratisation – e.g. inclusion through exclusion – from a perspective of social history, political science, gender studies and intersectionality approaches. This analytical foil shall be used to examine the relationship between state or government action and civil society, as well as the reproduction of social and political inequality despite increasing democratisation movements.

Author : Jeroen Huisman,Anna Smolentseva,Isak Froumin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319529806

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25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries by Jeroen Huisman,Anna Smolentseva,Isak Froumin Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades has evolved into fifteen unique national systems, systems that have responded to national and global developments while still bearing some traces of the past. The book is distinctive as it presents a comprehensive analysis of the reforms and transformations in the region in the last 25 years; and it focuses on institutional landscape through the evolution of the institutional types established and developed in Pre-Soviet, Soviet and Post-Soviet time. It also embraces all fifteen countries of the former USSR, and provides a comparative analysis of transformations of institutional landscape across Post-Soviet systems. It will be highly relevant for students and researchers in the fields of higher education and and sociology, particularly those with an interest in historical and comparative studies.

Author : Nicholas Ellison,Tina Haux
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788113526

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Handbook on Society and Social Policy by Nicholas Ellison,Tina Haux Pdf

This comprehensive Handbook provides a unique overview of the key issues and challenges facing society and social policy in the twenty-first century, discussing how welfare is conceptualised, organised and delivered in contemporary global society. Chapters engage with specific areas of social policy as well as with the social divisions and institutional infrastructures that underpin them. The Handbook also considers how social policy should respond to the challenges posed by austerity, human migration and the climate crisis.

Author : Lars Engberg-Pedersen,Adam Fejerskov,Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030155145

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Rethinking Gender Equality in Global Governance by Lars Engberg-Pedersen,Adam Fejerskov,Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde Pdf

Author : Emily W. Kane
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781847060822

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Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Childhood by Emily W. Kane Pdf

'Here be dragons' was the traditional warning used by ancient mapmakers to indicate dangerous, or simply unknown, lands. These were the dwelling places of fantastical beasts, creatures such as dragons, sea serpents, unicorns, griffins and mermaids. Throughout the ages, such beasts have been viewed in complex and contradictory ways because they embody both our fear and our fascination of the unpredictable natural world around us. They appear in the earliest myths and accompany the heroes of medieval romance and folktales. Whether as the symbolic creatures of myth, or as the marvellous beasts of medieval legend and travellers' tales, fantastic animals have always inspired art and literature. Today they feature among the many marvels that populate the alternative worlds of fantasy and the outer reaches of cyberspace. Drawing on sources as diverse as myth, history and folklore, this book explores the ways in which mythical beasts continue to inhabit our fantasies and to define our constantly changing relationship to both real and imagined worlds.

Author : Laura Levine Frader,Sonya O. Rose
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801481465

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Gender and Class in Modern Europe by Laura Levine Frader,Sonya O. Rose Pdf

Introduction : gender and the reconstruction of European working-class history / Laura L. Frader and Sonya O. Rose -- Gender and uneven working-class formation in the Irish linen industry / Jane Gray -- What price a weaver's dignity? Gender inequality and the survival of home-based production in industrial France / Tessie P. Liu -- The gendering of skill as historical process : the case of French knitters in industrial Troyes, 1880-1939 / Helen Harden Chenut -- Consumption, production, and gender : the sewing machine in nineteenth-century France / Judith G. Coffin -- Engendering work and wages : the French labor movement and the family wage / Laura L. Frader -- Women "of a very low type" : crossing racial boundaries in imperial Britain / Laura Tabili -- Protective labor legislation in nineteenth-century Britain : gender, class, and the liberal state / Sonya O. Rose -- Social policy, body politics : recasting the social question in Germany, 1875-1900 / Kathleen Canning -- Republican ideology, gender, and class : France, 1860s-1914 / Judith F. Stone -- Manhood, womanhood, and the politics of class in Britain, 1790-1845 / Anna Clark -- Rational and respectable men : gender, the working class, and citizenship in Britain, 1850-1867 / Keith McClelland -- Class and gender at loggerheads in the early Soviet state : who should organize the female proletariat and how? / Elizabeth A. Wood -- The heroic man and the ever-changing woman : gender and politics in European communism, 1917-1950 / Eric D. Weitz.