Key Issues in Women's Work

Key Issues in Women's Work

Author: Catherine Hakim

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-17

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1135310882

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Women's employment is one of the most widely-discussed and often-misunderstood issues of modern society. Are women today oppressed, or do they have the best of both worlds? Do women have to go out to work to gain equality with men, or do they already do more than their share of domestic work, caring work and voluntary work as well as work in the informal economy? Do women seek careers on the same terms as men, or are they content to be dependent wives or secondary earners taking jobs on a short-term basis? How important is job segregation in explaining the 20% pay gap between men and women? Have equal opportunities laws had any real impact? Are women in Europe lagging behind, or are they at the forefront of developments in modern societies? This new updated edition of Catherine Hakim's classic text addresses all the key issues currently debated in relation to women's work - in the domestic sphere, as well as paid employment. Dr Hakim tests the power of patriarchy theory and preference theory against economic theories. Sex discrimination, work-life balance, part-time work, flexible hours, homeworking, career patterns across the life cycle, labour mobility, labour turnover, the returns to education, occupational segregation, the pay gap, the glass ceiling, and the impact of European Union policies are all considered. Analysis of historical developments over the twentieth century, based on censuses, is complemented by case studies of people working in occupations undergoing dramatic change. Throughout the book, comparisons are drawn between the USA, Britain, other European countries, Canada, Australia, and also China, Japan and other Far Eastern societies. The analysis draws on sociology, economics, psychology, labour law, history and social anthropology to conclude that the diversity of women's life goals and lifestyle preferences is increasing. This explains the growing polarisation of women's employment and many contradictory recent research results.


Multidisciplinary Handbook of Social Exclusion Research

Multidisciplinary Handbook of Social Exclusion Research

Author: Dominic Abrams

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-05-23

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0470020008

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Social exclusion is a key problem for policy makers, researchers and professionals worldwide. Despite this, the debate lacks a dominant disciplinary focus. This innovative handbook covers evidence from key research and policy to offer cross-disciplinary perspectives on major areas of social exclusion. Focusing on central policy domains including education, healthcare and crime, it is structured so as to relate evidence to the state of social exclusion and the mechanisms by which it can be tackled. It book will be an unrivalled reference for academics and practitioners working across disciplines including housing, education, psychology, political science, healthcare, sociology and law.


The World's Religions

The World's Religions

Author: Peter B. Clarke

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2009-05-07

Total Pages: 806

ISBN-13: 1135211000

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This comprehensive volume focuses on the world's religions and the changes they have undergone as they become more global and diverse in form. It explores the religions of the world not only in the regions with which they have been historically associated, but also looks at the new cultural and religious contexts in which they are developing. It considers the role of migration in the spread of religions by examining the issues raised for modern societies by the increasing interaction of different religions. The volume also addresses such central questions as the dynamics of religious innovation which is evidenced in the rise and impact of new religious and new spirituality movements in every continent.


Hard Labour: The Sociology Of Parenthood

Hard Labour: The Sociology Of Parenthood

Author: Gatrell, Caroline

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2004-12-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0335214886

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This text examines the changes in family practices and paid work in the 21st century. Its main focus is highly qualified working mothers with very young children, but also takes into account the views of fathers.


Women Who Succeed

Women Who Succeed

Author: Susan Durbin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-02-16

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1137328266

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The number of women in senior management remains stubbornly low. Women Who Succeed examines the real life experiences of forty-six senior women who have 'made it' into senior management. It considers the strategies that these women adopted, the support they received and the relationships they formed in building their careers.


EBOOK: Hard Labour: The Sociology of Parenthood

EBOOK: Hard Labour: The Sociology of Parenthood

Author: Caroline Gatrell

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2004-12-16

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0335225098

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This innovative book examines changes in family practices and paid work in the 21st century. Focusing on highly qualified mothers who combine childcare with employment, it makes a valuable contribution to current debates. It also takes into account the views of fathers, making it a rounded study of family practice in the new millennium. Hard Labour puts forward some new and thought-provoking arguments about both mothers' and fathers' commitments to parenting and paid work. The first part of the book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and readable overview of the literature on motherhood, fatherhood, family practices, and women in employment. The second part draws on a qualitative study of the lives of twenty mothers and their husbands or partners, each of whom is educated to degree level or above, and has at least one child under five. This study considers key aspects of the family lives of the men and women interviewed, including: How they manage their commitments to one another, their children and their professional work Sharing out family tasks such as childcare and housework At each stage, the empirical research is placed in the context of the literature referenced in the first part, and of the wider debate on career and motherhood. Hard Labour is essential reading for students and academics in sociology, family policy, family studies, women’s or gender studies and the sociology of management/employment.


Women's Voices in Management

Women's Voices in Management

Author: Helena Desivilya Syna

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 1137432152

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Women's Voices in Management examines a wide array of women's voices across different geo-political, social and organizational contexts in management. Extant research provides clear evidence on gendering in organizations throughout all the ranks including top management.


Human Resources, Care Giving, Career Progression and Gender

Human Resources, Care Giving, Career Progression and Gender

Author: Monica Lee (Series Editor)

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-07-31

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1134367252

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This book presents a challenge to feminist perspectives that see the glass ceiling as the exclusive domain of women's careers and work life. The authors address existing debates and extend them to include original empirical evidence from several US and UK comparative studies that look at the effect of caring for dependents (including care for children and elder care) upon the careers and aspirations of both men and women.


Unequal Pay for Women and Men

Unequal Pay for Women and Men

Author: Heather Joshi

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780262600392

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The book is the result of an extensive study of the relative wages of British men and women between 1978 and 1991. Using two large and extremely detailed longitudinal data sets, one of women and men born in 1946, and the other of women and men born in 1958, the authors examine the evolution of the pay gap over time and evaluate the success of policies designed to establish equal pay.


Degrees of Equality

Degrees of Equality

Author: Helen Russell

Publisher: ESRI

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 0707002400

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Examines the distribution of pay differentials and other rewards among recent male and female graduates.