Women's work and women's lives : the continuing struggle worldwide / edited by Hilda Kahne and Janet Z. Giele.
1992
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Title
Women's work and women's lives : the continuing struggle worldwide / edited by Hilda Kahne and Janet Z. Giele.
Published
Boulder : Westview Press, [1992]
Copyright
©1992
Call Number
HD6061 .W64 1992
ISBN
0813306361 (alk. paper)
Description
xii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25674931
Note
Spine title: Women's work & women's lives
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Added Author
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Pt. 1
Overview
1
1Promise and Disappointment of the Modern Era: Equality for Women / Janet Z. Giele
3
2Women's Work, Women's Lives: A Comparative Economic Perspective / Francine D. Blau Marianne A. Ferber
28
Pt. 2
Modernizing Regions
45
3Caught in the Crisis: Women in the Economies of Sub-Saharan Africa / Gordon Weil
47
4Development and Changing Gender Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean / Helen I. Safa
69
5Women, Employment, and Social Change in the Middle East and North Africa / Valentine M. Moghadam
87
Pt. 3
Socialist Economies in Transition
117
6Women and Work in Communist and Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe / Sharon L. Wolchik
119
7The Interaction of Women's Work and Family Roles in the Former USSR / Gail W. Lapidus
140
Pt. 4
Industrial Economies
165
8Women's Labor Market Experience in the Two Germanies / Hedwig Rudolph
169
9Politics, Progress, and Compromise: Women's Work and Lives in Great Britain / Emma MacLennan
187
10Central in the Family and Marginal in the Work Force: Women's Place in Japanese Society / Ann Cordilia Kazuko Ohta
205
11Women and the Welfare State in the Nordic Countries / Elina Haavio-Mannila Kaisa Kauppinen
224
12Work-Family Policies in the United States / Joseph H. Pleck
248
Pt. 5
Conclusion
277
13Progress or Stalemate? A Cross-National Comparison of Women's Status and Roles / Hilda Kahne
279
About the Book and Editors
303
About the Contributors
305
Index
309