Working Mothers in Europe
Working Mothers in Europe

Author: Ute Gerhard

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781781956762

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In order to illustrate cross-country variations in mothers' work and care arrangements in Europe, this book fuses a comparative approach towards welfare systems and social policies with an analysis of mothers' social practices in several European countries. The book demonstrates that across Europe, women increasingly retain their jobs after having children but that there are, however, striking differences in labor market participation of women both between and within European countries.

Working Mothers and the Welfare State
Working Mothers and the Welfare State

Author: Kimberly J. Morgan

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780804754149

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This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States.

Making Motherhood Work
Making Motherhood Work

Author: Caitlyn Collins

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0691202400

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The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and social policies aren't helping. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies. Can American women look to Europe for solutions? Making Motherhood Work draws on interviews that Caitlyn Collins conducted over five years with 135 middle-class working mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States. She explores how women navigate work and family given the different policy supports available in each country. Taking readers into women's homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces, Collins shows that mothers' expectations depend on context and that policies alone cannot solve women's struggles. With women held to unrealistic standards, the best solutions demand that we redefine motherhood, work, and family.

Women, Men and Working Conditions in Europe
Women, Men and Working Conditions in Europe

Author: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9789289711289

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Despite much legislative progress in gender equality over the past 40 years, there are still gender gaps across many aspects of the labour market. Inequalities are still evident in areas such as access to the labour market, employment patterns and associated working conditions. This report explores gender differences across several dimensions of working conditions, examining relevant country differences, analysing the different occupational groups of both men and women, and comparing the public and private sectors. It also looks at the impact of the crisis on gender segregation in employment. Based on findings from the fifth European working conditions survey (EWCS), conducted in 2010, the analysis offers a striking picture of women and men at work across 34 European countries today.

Women of the European Union
Women of the European Union

Author: Maria Dolors Garcia i Ramon

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0415118794

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1. Placing women of the European Union -- 2. The Geographi of gender and welfare in Europe -- 3. Women's work and everyday life in southern Europe in the context of European Integration -- 4. The diverse worlds of European Patriarchy -- 5. An equal place to work? Anti-lesbian discrimination and sexual citizenship in the European Union -- 6. Family policies and working mothers: A comparison of France and West Germany -- 7. At the centre on the periphery? Women in the portuguese labour market -- 8. Contrasting developments in female labour force participation in east and west Germany since 1945 -- 9. The politics of cultural identity: Thai women in Germany -- 10. From informal flexibility to the new organization of time -- 11. City and suburb: contexts for Dutch women's work and daily lives -- 12. Family, gender and urban life: Stability and change in a copenhagen neighbourhood -- 13. Regional welfare policies and women's agrucultural labour in southern Spain -- 14. Women's integration into the labour market and rural industrialization in Spain: Gender relations and the global economy.

Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 1)
Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 1)

Author: Jean-Michel Lafleur

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-10-30

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 303051241X

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This first open access book in a series of three volumes provides an in-depth analysis of social protection policies that EU Member States make accessible to resident nationals, non-resident nationals and non-national residents. In doing so, it discusses different scenarios in which the interplay between nationality and residence could lead to inequalities of access to welfare. Each chapter maps the eligibility conditions for accessing social benefits, by paying particular attention to the social entitlements that migrants can claim in host countries and/or export from home countries. The book also identifies and compares recent trends of access to welfare entitlements across five policy areas: health care, unemployment, family benefits, pensions, and guaranteed minimum resources. As such this book is a valuable read to researchers, policy makers, government employees and NGO’s.

Lone Mothers in European Welfare Regimes
Lone Mothers in European Welfare Regimes

Author: Jane E. Lewis

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9781853024610

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Based on a long-term study of the policies of several European nations' lone mothers, this te×t reveals the contrasting attitudes in Europe towards lone mothers, and how they have been categorized and treated. Also e×amined is the role of men as both carers and cash-providers.

Women in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Women in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Author: Rachel Fuchs

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2004-11-21

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0230802168

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During the nineteenth century, European women of all countries and social classes experienced dramatic and enduring changes in their familial, working and political lives. However, the history of women at this time is not one of unmitigated progress - theirs was an uphill struggle, fraught with hindrances, hard work and economic downturns, and the increasing intrusion of the public into their innermost private and personal lives. Breaking away from traditional categories, Rachel G. Fuchs and Victoria E. Thompson provide a sense of the variety and complexity of women's lives across national and regional boundaries, juxtaposing the experiences of women with the perceptions of their lives. Three themes unite this study: - The tension between tradition and modernity - The changing relationship between the community and individual - The shifting boundaries between public and private Dealing with individual women's lives within a large social and cultural context, Fuchs and Thompson demonstrate how strong and courageous women refused to live within the prescribed domestic roles - and how many became the modern women of the twentieth century.