Reconciling Work and the Family
The Impact of Parental Leave Policies and Occupation on the Female Life Course
©2004
Thesis
326 Pages
Summary
Many women are confronted each day with the problem of trying to reconcile their employment and family commitments. The ongoing discussion of this problem shows that satisfactory solutions have not yet been discovered. A period of leave from paid employment on the birth of a child has for many years been portrayed as a means to resolve this dilemma. Using longitudinal methods and a life-course approach, this book examines how changing leave regulations and occupational opportunity structures have affected when, where and how long women in Germany work. Policy makers’ continued failure to address the underlying issue of the division of paid and care work between women and men as social groups has cemented traditional gender relations and not solved the problem of reconciliation.
Details
- Pages
- 326
- Publication Year
- 2004
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631527405
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Deutschland Berufstätigkeit Geschlechterbeziehung Leitbild Geschichte 1952-2001 Vereinbarkeit Beruf /Familie Parental Leave Policies Life Course Gender Relations Female Employment Event History Analysis Mutter
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2004. 326 pp., num. fig. and tables
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