Women and Employment

Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Professor of Empirical Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK, Shirley Dex, Professor of Longitudinal Social Research in Education, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, UK and Heather Joshi, Professor of Economic and Developmental Demography, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, UK

'. . . this book provides an excellent evaluation of women's past, current and potential employment situation. It contains lots of analysis, yet is never difficult to read, and provides plenty of useful and thought-provoking context to the analysis.'

• Contents:Introduction: Changing Lives and New Challenges Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Heather Joshi, Kate Purcell and Peter Elias PART I: WOMEN AND EMPLOYMENT: ASSESSING PROGRESS ON EQUALITY1. Achieving Equality in the Knowledge Economy Kate Purcell and Peter Elias2. Changes in Women’s Occupations and Occupational Mobility Over 25 YearsShirley Dex, Kelly Ward and Heather Joshi 3. Ethnic Differences in Women’s Labour Market ActivityAngela Dale, Joanne Lindley, Shirley Dex and Anthony RaffertyPART II: DYNAMICS OF EMPLOYMENT AND FAMILY ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE 4. Putting Women on the Research Agenda: The 1980 Women and Employment Survey Jean Martin and Ceridwen Roberts5. The New Dynamics of Family Formation and the Explosion of Childbearing Outside Marriage John Ermisch6. Changing Gender Role Attitudes Jacqueline Scott PART III: WORK–LIFE BALANCE7. Working Full-Time After Motherhood Susan McRae8. Class Difference in Mothers’ Work Schedules and Assessments of their ‘Work–Life Balance’ in Dual-Earner Couples in Britain Colette Fagan, Linda McDowell, Diane Perrons, Kathryn Ray and Kevin Ward9. Mothers’ Employment, Work–Life Conflict, Careers and Class Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette10. The Household Division of Labour: Changes in Families’ Allocation of Paid and Unpaid Work Susan Harkness 11. Work–Family Balance Policies: Issues and Development in the UK 1997–2005 in Comparative Perspective Jane LewisPART IV: WAYS FORWARD 12. Women and Work in the UK: The Need for a Modernisation of Labour Market Institutions Jill Rubery 13. The Regulation of Women’s Pay: From Individual Rights to Reflexive Law? Simon Deakin and Colm McLaughlin 14. Migration, Employment and Gender Divisions of Labour Linda McDowell, Adina Batnitzky and Sarah Dyer 15. Policy on Care: A Help or Hindrance to Gender Equality? Susan HimmelweitIndex