Women's work and women's lives : the continuing struggle worldwide /: the continuing struggle worldwide. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Hilda Kahne and Janet Z. Giele.
• Other Names: Kahne, Hilda; Giele, Janet Zollinger
• Contents: Promise and disappointment of the modern era: Equality for women / Janet Z. Giele -- Women's work, women's lives: A comparative economic perspective / Francine D. Blau and Marianne A. Ferber -- Caught in the crisis: Women in the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa / Gordon Weil -- Development and changing gender roles in Latin America and the Caribbean / Helen I. Safa -- Women, employment, and social change in the Middle East and North Africa / Valentine M. Moghadam -- Women and work in Communist and post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe / Sharon L. Wolchik -- The interaction of women's work and family roles in the former USSR / Gail W. Lapidus -- Women's labor market experience in the two Germanies / Hedwig Rudolph -- Politics, progress, and compromise: Women's work and lives in Great Britain / Emma MacLennan. (cont.) Central in the family and marginal in the work force: Women's place in Japanese society / Ann Cordilia and Kazuko Ohta -- Women and the welfare state in the Nordic countries / Elina Haavio-Mannila and Kaisa Kauppinen -- Work-family policies in the United States / Joseph H. Pleck -- Progress or stalemate? A cross-national comparison of women's status and roles / Hilda Kahne.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 331.4; Equal pay for equal work; Women -- Employment; Women -- Economic conditions; Women -- Social conditions; Égalité de rémunération; Femmes -- Conditions économiques; Femmes -- Conditions sociales; Femmes -- Travail; Equal pay for equal work; Women -- Economic conditions; Women -- Employment; Women -- Social conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000009613; 1000009610
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.