Childbearing, Women's Employment and Work-Life Balance Policies in Contemporary Europe [electronic resource] /
Oláh, Livia Sz.editor.
Frątczak, Ewa.editor.
This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminating the uncertainty and risk related to insecure labour force attachment, the incoherence of women's and men's access to education and employment and the unequal share of domestic responsibilities.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgement -- Notes on contributors -- Funding -- Introduction: aspirations and uncertainties : childbearing choices and work-life realities in Europe / Livia Sz. Oláh and Susanne Fahlén -- Work and childbearing intentions in a capability perspective : young adult women in sweden / Susanne Fahlén and Livia Sz. Oláh -- Employment instability and childbearing plans in a child-oriented country : evidence from France / Ariane Pailhé and Anne Solaz -- The interplay of fertility intentions, female employment and work-life balance policies in contemporary Poland : can gender equity, preference, and social capital theories provide a better insight? / Ewa Frátczak and Aneta Ptak-Chmielewska -- Unattainable desires? : childbearing capabilities in early 21st century Hungary / Judit Takács -- Acknowledgement.
This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminating the uncertainty and risk related to insecure labour force attachment, the incoherence of women's and men's access to education and employment and the unequal share of domestic responsibilities.
Welfare state.
Political science.
Industrial sociology.
Political sociology.
Sociology.
Social policy.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Political Science.
Sociology of Work.
Political Sociology.
Gender Studies.
Social Policy.