The Gendering of Inequalities: Women, Men and Work
Subtitle: Women, Men and Work
By: Jane Jenson
Contributors: Laufer, Jacqueline; Maruani, Margaret
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781315202815; 9781351786164; 9781351786140
Subjects: Women; Employment; Sex discrimination in employment; Sociology & Social Policy; Discrimination sexuelle dans l'emploi
Description: "This was first published in 2000: This work is founded on the premise that many analyses of economic restructuring and of gender relations fail to recognize two things. First, the situation facing women is different from that of the 1960s when the conceptual apparatuses for analyzing "women and work" were created. Labour markets are dominated by flexible, non-standard work, precarious contractual relations and income disparities. Therefore, it is difficult to structure political claims or analysis around the notion that there is a single labour market, that the primary problem is discrimination or inappropriate training, and that political strategies should focus on discrimination and non-traditional employment. Rather, new challenges require new solutions. The second point of departure is that is is impossible to understand either contemporary labour markets, or the roots of employment and other public policies without locating them vis a vis patterns of gender inequalities generated by and in these labour markets. The labour force has been feminized to such an extent that new, and often unequal gender relations are crucial to their very functioning."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, INTRODUCTION --; title: chapter 1 A Comparative Perspective on Work and Gender  -- Jane Jenson; title: chapter 2 An Overview of the Major Issues  -- Margaret Maruani; title: part, PARTI CATEGORICAL MESSAGES: THINKING AND RETHINKING GENDER RELATIONS --; title: chapter Introduction to Part I -- Intersections: Gender Categories in Time and Space  -- Jane Jenson; title: chapter 3 Time and Women's Work: Historical Periodisations  -- Delphine Gardey; title: chapter 4 Where Have They Been Working and What Have They Been Doing? Historical Perspectives on Working Women  -- Sylvie Schweitzer; title: chapter 5 Immigrant Women and Their Daughters: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender  -- Françoise Gaspard ç; title: chapter 6 The Sexual Division of Labour Re-examined  -- Helena Hirata Danièle Kergoat; title: chapter 7 Re-signifying the Worker: Gender and Flexibility  -- Sylvia Walby; title: part, PART II BE PREPARED: EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND SKILLING --; title: chapter Introduction to Part II -- Variations on Women's and Men's Occupations --; title: chapter 8 A Hidden Curriculum? Coeducation and Gender Identity  -- Annick Durand-Delvigne Marie Duru-Bellat; title: chapter 9 The Social Construction of Skill  -- Anne-Marie Daune-Richard; title: chapter 10 Secretarial Work and Technological Change  -- Philippe Alonzo Olivier Liaroutzos; title: chapter 11 The French and German Educational Models and Their Consequences for Women  -- Catherine Marry; title: part, PART III WOMEN'S RELATIONSHIP TO LABOUR MARKETS: MORE AND MORE PRECARIOUS? --; title: chapter Introduction to Part III -- (Wo)man-Handled by the Labour Market --; title: chapter 12 The Enduring Wage Gap: A Europe-Wide Comparison  -- Rachel Silvera; title: chapter 13 Part-Time Work: Challenging the \  -- Colette Fagan, Jacqueline O 'Reilly and Jill Rubety; title: chapter 14 Female Unemployment in France and the Rest of Europe  -- Annie Gauvin; title: chapter 15 Moving Towards the American Model? Women and Unemployment in Great Britain  -- Ariane Hegewisch; title: chapter 16 When Exclusion is Socially Acceptable: The Case of Spain  -- Teresa Torns; title: part, PART IV PUBLIC POLICY: PROMOTING EQUALITY OR ENGENDERING NEW INEQUALITIES? --; title: chapter Introduction to Part IV -- Public Sphere, Private Sphere: The Issue of Women's Rights  -- Jacqueline Laufer; title: chapter 17 Equality at Work: What Difference does Legislating Make? Marie-Thérèse Lanquetin --; title: chapter 18 European Policies Promoting More Flexible Labour Forces  -- Danièle Meulders; title: chapter 19 Family Policy and the Labour Market in European Welfare States  -- Jane Lewis; title: chapter 20 France's New Service Sector and the Family  -- Michel Lallement; title: chapter 21 Democracy Confronts the New Domestic Services  -- Geneviève Fraisse; title: chapter 22 Rethinking Time: There is More to Life than Working Time  -- Working Time Maria-Carmen Belloni, Jean-Yves Boulin and Annie Junter-Loiseau; title: part, CONCLUSION --; title: chapter 23 The Future Remains Open -- Christian Baudelot.