What Is Equality And How Do We Get There? Women, Gender And Work

Kitap : What Is Equality And How Do We Get There? Women, Gender And Work

Yazar : * Martha Fetherolf Loutfi

Dil : İngilizce

Bölüm : Kadın

Yayın Yeri : Switzerland

ISBN : 92-2-111386-8

Yayın Tarihi : Ocak 2001

Yayıncı : International Labour Office (ILO)

Tür : Kitap

Kitap No : 2005

İÇİNDEKİLER

CONTENTS
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Introduction
1. Women, gender and work - an overview, Martha Fetherolf Loutfi
Part II: Concepts, values
2. New perspectives on work as value, Dominique Meda
3. Work and rights, Amartya Sen
4. Women and equality: The capabilities approach, Martha Nussbaum
Part III: Statistics and information: What do we know?
5. Gender issues in labour statistics, Adriana Mala Greenwood.
6. The enduring debate over unpaid labour, Lourdes Beneria.
7. Data on race, ethnicity and gender: Caveats for the user,
Carolyn Shaw Bell
8. Theories of occupational segregation by sex: An overview,
Richard Anker
9. Differences in occupational earnings by sex, Derek Robinson
10. Occupational segregation by sex in Nordic countries: An empirical
investigation, Helina Melkas and Richard Anker
11. Part-time work: Solution or trap?, Patrick Bolle
12. Women in management: Closer to breaking through the glass ceiling?
Linda Wirth
13.. Sex-specific labour market indicators: What they show, Sara Elder and
Lawrence Jeffrey Johnson

Women, gender and work
Part IV: Objectives, policy: What does it take?
14. Assessing equal opportunities in the European Union, Janneke Plantenga and Johan Hansen
15. The family, flexible work and social cohesion at risk, Martin Carnoy
16. Assigning care: Gender norms and economic outcomes, M. V. Lee Badgett and Nancy Folbre
17. Parental leave, Patrick Bolle
18. Labour, gender and the economic/social divide, Julie A. Nelson
19. Women, men and management styles, Marie-Therese Claes
20. Equal treatment, social protection and income security for women, Linda Luckhaus
Part V: The role of law: Where have we gotten?
21. Affirmative action in employment: Recent court approaches to a difficult concept, Jane Hodges Aeberhard
22. Supranational action against sex discrimination: Equal pay and equal treatment in the European Union, Ingeborg Heide
23. Sexual harassment in employment: Recent judicial and arbitral trends, Jane Hodges Aeberhard
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Notes on contributors
Annotated list of chapters: French . Annotated list of chapters: Spanish.