Hardly any broad analyses exist to link the vast contemporary change in life patterns both to changes in women's lives (rising employment, declining fertility, and changing use of time) and to changes in men's lives, the gender contract, and the economy, as well as to national social policies. This book shows not only similar trends across countries but also the likely direction of future change, particularly as related to economic growth, gender equity, and the well-being of families and children. The first chapter, an overview by the editors, provides a comprehensive conceptual framework for understanding how the economic, sociological, and cultural changes have produced new individual life patterns. Succeeding chapters cover in Part I the connections between contemporary changes in lives and the changing global economy, the changing welfare state, and the growth of personal choice; in Part II changing time use patterns of men and women; in Part III the institutional factors in employment, child care, law, and family that affect life patterns of both sexes.
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"...a rich source for scientists of all disciplines dealing with societal and gender structures and their evolution over time."
- Margit Schratzenstaller, Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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public morality attitudes, changing life patterns, patriarchy index, quota clause, cultural professions, time diary data, adaptive women, flexibility indicators, parental leave allowance, employment exit, social democratic countries, public childcare facilities, adaptive upgrading, life course research, caring obligations, weekly working hours, female employment rates, goal differentiation, registered childminder, time use patterns, male breadwinner model, gender contract, actual working times, employment continuity, lifestyle preferences Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, European Union, Life-course Research, Oxford University Press, European Commission, Employment Options Survey, United Kingdom, Elsevier Ltd, Federal Office of Statistics, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, European Court of Justice, Harvard University Press, University of Maryland, Working Paper, Basic Books, Cambridge University Press, College Park, Current Population Survey, European Sociological Review, Swiss Labor-Force Survey, Thousand Oaks, Edition Sigma, Equal Treatment Directive, Great Britain New!
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public morality attitudes, changing life patterns, patriarchy index, quota clause, cultural professions, time diary data, adaptive women, flexibility indicators, parental leave allowance, employment exit, social democratic countries, public childcare facilities, adaptive upgrading, life course research, caring obligations, weekly working hours, female employment rates, goal differentiation, registered childminder, time use patterns, male breadwinner model, gender contract, actual working times, employment continuity, lifestyle preferences Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, European Union, Life-course Research, Oxford University Press, European Commission, Employment Options Survey, United Kingdom, Elsevier Ltd, Federal Office of Statistics, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, European Court of Justice, Harvard University Press, University of Maryland, Working Paper, Basic Books, Cambridge University Press, College Park, Current Population Survey, European Sociological Review, Swiss Labor-Force Survey, Thousand Oaks, Edition Sigma, Equal Treatment Directive, Great Britain New!
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- The European Union (Reference Shelf) by Norris Smith on page 137, and page 138
- Women and Welfare: Theory and Practice in the United States and Europe (Rutgers Series on Women and Politics) by Nancy J. Hirschmann on page 25, and page 70
- Classification of Occupations and Coding Index, 1980 by Population Censuses & Surveys Office on page 279
- Gender and Welfare State Regimes (Gender and Politics Series) by Diane Sainsbury on page 24
- Why We Need a New Welfare State by Gï¿1/2sta Esping-Andersen on page 24
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