Fodor brings qualitative and quantitative analyses to bear, combining statistical analyses of survey data, interviews with women managers in both countries, and archival materials including those from the previously classified archives of the Hungarian communist party and transcripts from sessions of the Austrian Parliament. She shows how women's access to power varied in degree and operated through different principles and mechanisms in accordance with the stratification systems of the respective countries. In Hungary women's mobility was curtailed by political means (often involving limited access to communist party membership), while in Austria women's professional advancement was affected by limited access to educational institutions and the labor market. Fodor discusses the legacies of Austria's and Hungary's "gender regimes" following the demise of state socialism and during the process of integration into the European Union.
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Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women's professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Éva Fodor examines women's inclusion in and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of the twentieth century. Until the end of World War II women's lives in the two countries, which were once part of the same empire, followed similar paths, which only began to diverge after the communist takeover in Hungary in the late 1940s. Fodor takes advantage of Austria and Hungary's common history to carefully examine the effects of state socialism and the differing trajectories to social mobility and authority available to women in each country.
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“Éva Fodor's compelling analysis of gendered mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion in the workplaces of state-socialist Hungary and capitalist Austria provides a welcome set of comparative insights to the burgeoning literature on gender, states, and societies, and speaks to core questions in feminism and studies of inequality.”—Ann Shola Orloff, coauthor, States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States
“Working Difference contains much fascinating new material and exciting analysis. It will make an important contribution to gender theory and to the study of postsocialist stratification. This book is one of only a small handful that directly compare Eastern and Western European political economies and one of the only ones that compares gender regimes. It will have a wide influence on discussions of gender regimes, welfare states, and the historical role of state socialism.”—Susan Gal, coauthor of The Politics of Gender after Socialism
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Éva Fodor is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College.
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model predicting access, denotes nonsignificance, active population between ages, reproductive capital, state socialist era, cadre politics, state socialist period, mobility survey, gendered exclusion, limited inclusion, state socialist societies, gender regimes, party decrees, educational assets, reproductive duties Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, Eastern Europe, Conditions of Inclusion, Mechanisms of Exclusion, Women's Council, Hungarian Mobility Survey, United States, Three Generations of Women, Equal Treatment Package, Microcensus of Austria, Social Democratic Party, Western Europe, Austrian People's Party, Hungarian Politburo, Green Party, Hungarian Socialist, European Union, Lujza Kovács, Central European, Central Committee New!
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model predicting access, denotes nonsignificance, active population between ages, reproductive capital, state socialist era, cadre politics, state socialist period, mobility survey, gendered exclusion, limited inclusion, state socialist societies, gender regimes, party decrees, educational assets, reproductive duties Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, Eastern Europe, Conditions of Inclusion, Mechanisms of Exclusion, Women's Council, Hungarian Mobility Survey, United States, Three Generations of Women, Equal Treatment Package, Microcensus of Austria, Social Democratic Party, Western Europe, Austrian People's Party, Hungarian Politburo, Green Party, Hungarian Socialist, European Union, Lujza Kovács, Central European, Central Committee New!
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- Women, the State, and Welfare by Linda Gordon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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