This refreshing volume provides a theoretical framework for a comprehensive cross-national analysis of the degree and forms of labour market integration of women in three European countries - Finland, West Germany and the Netherlands - from the 1950s until 2000.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: Introduction; International differences in women's labour force participation: theoretical approaches; Constructing a theoretical framework for the cross - national comparison: the gender arrangement approach; Designing the empirical analysis; Germany: contradictory modernization- from the housewife to the part-time carer model of the family; The Netherlands: dramatic modernization of the gender arrangement - towards an egalitarian, family - oriented arrangement; Finland: from the family economic model to the dual breadwinner model; Development paths of gender arrangement and labour market integration; Exploring the differences in the development of gender arrangements; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
