Women, men, work and family in Europe / edited by Rosemary Crompton, Suzan Lewis, Clare Lyonette. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

The unravelling of the 'male breadwinner' model -- and some of its consequences / Rosemary Crompton, Suzan Lewis, Clare Lyonette -- Evolutions and approaches to equitable divisions of paid work and care in three European countries: a multi-level challenge / Richenda Gambles, Suzan Lewis, Rhona Rapoport -- Social policy in Europe: its impact on families and work / Laura den Dulk Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes -- Fertility rates and mothers' employment behaviour in comparative perspective: similarities and differences in six European countries / Jeanne Fagnani -- Fertility decline, the postponement of childbearing and the increase in childlessness in Central and Eastern Europe: a gender equity approach / Hana Haskova -- Main patterns in attitudes to the articulation between work and family life: a cross-national analysis / Karin Wall -- Occupational class, country and the domestic division of labour / Rosemary Crompton Clare Lyonette.

Gender, social class and work-life balance in the new economy / Diane Perrons, LInda McDowell, Colette Fagan, Kathy Ray Kevin Ward -- Care capital, stress and satisfaction / Anneli Anttonen Jorma Sipila -- The workplace as an arena for negotiating the work-family boundary : a case study of two Swedish social services agencies / Margareta Back-Wiklund Lars Plantin -- Women's occupational patterns and work-family arrangements : do national and organisational policies matter? / Maria das Dores Guerreiro Ines Pereira -- Employment, the family and 'work-life balance' in France / Nicky Le Feuvre Clotilde Lemarchant -- Continuities, change and transformations / Rosemary Crompton, Suzan Lewis, Clare Lyonette.

Considerable social changes are underway as more women, particularly mothers, enter and remain in paid employment. This book explores these changes, both comparatively and specifically in a number of European countries.

APA - CHECK FORMATING BEFORE USE Crompton, R., Lewis, S., & Lyonette, C. (2007). Women, men, work and family in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.

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CLARE LYONETTE is a Research Officer at City University, London, UK.

ROSEMARY CROMPTON is Professor of Sociology at City University, London UK.

SUZAN LEWIS is Professor of Organizational Psychology at Middlesex University, UK. She co-ordinated a recently completed EU Framework Five project, Gender, Parenthood and the Changing Workplace (Transitions) and is a partner in a new EU project on Quality of Life in a Changing Europe.