Family and Gender Policy

Gender, Development and Disasters

Sarah Bradshaw

Sarah Bradshaw critically examines key notions, such as gender, vulnerability, risk, and humanitarianism, underpinning development and disaster discourse. Case studies are used to demonstrate how disasters are experienced individually an...

Paperback (2014)

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Hardback (2013)

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Gendered Lives

Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Anke C. Plagnol

The focus of the book is on inequalities in production and reproductive activities, as played out over time and in specific contexts. It examines the different forms that gendered lives take in the household and the workplace, and explor...

Paperback (2013)

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Hardback (2012)

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Women, Gender and Rural Development in China

Edited by Tamara Jacka, Sally Sargeson

This multidisciplinary book explores gender politics in the discourses and practices of development in rural China. The contributors – scholars in political science, anthropology, gender, development and Chinese studies – examine how dif...

Paperback (2012)

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Hardback (2011)

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The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty

Edited by Sylvia Chant

In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject from a range of disciplinary and professional perspectives, a...

Paperback (2011)

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Hardback (2010)

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Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century

Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Rosemary Crompton, Clare Lyonette

Both women and men strive to achieve a work and family balance, but does this imply more or less equality? Does the persistence of gender and class inequalities refute the notion that lives are becoming more individualised? Leading inter...

Paperback (2010)

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Hardback (March 2010)

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Work–Family Balance, Gender and Policy

Jane Lewis

This important book looks at the three main components of work–family policy packages – childcare services, flexible working patterns and entitlements to leave from work in order to care – across EU15 Member States, with comparative ref...

Paperback (2010)

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Hardback (2009)

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Women and Employment

Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Heather Joshi

How is women’s employment shaped by family and domestic responsibilities? This book, written by leading experts in the field, examines twenty-five years of change in women’s employment and addresses the challenges facing women today.

Paperback (2009)

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Hardback (2008)

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Social Policy, Employment and Family Change in Comparative Perspective

Edited by Jonathan Bradshaw, Aksel Hatland

This book is a comparative study of family change, parental employment and social policy in the five Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. In all these countries family forms have been profoundly affected by ...

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Hardback (April 2006)

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Children, Changing Families and Welfare States

Edited by Jane Lewis

The book explores the implications of changes to the welfare state for children in a range of countries. Children, Changing Families and Welfare States: examines the implications of social policies for children; sets the discussion in ...

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Hardback (2006)

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Globalization, Uncertainty and Women’s Careers

Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Heather Hofmeister

Globalization, Uncertainty and Women’s Careers assesses the effects of globalization on the life courses of women in thirteen countries across Europe and America in the second half of the 20th century.

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Hardback (2006)

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Globalization, Uncertainty and Men’s Careers

Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Melinda Mills, Fabrizio Bernardi

Globalization, argue the contributors to this book, has remarkably accelerated social and economic change in modern societies. One such change is manifested in the world of work and careers. This book explores whether the forces of globa...

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Hardback (June 2006)

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