Gendering of Inequalities

The University of Montreal, Canada. HEC, School of Management, France. CSU-CNRS, France.

• List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Foreword by Jane Jenson, Jacqueline Laufer and Margaret Maruani -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 A Comparative Perspective on Work and Gender Jane Jenson -- 2 An Overview of the Major Issues /Margaret Maruani -- PART I CATEGORICAL MESSAGES: THINKING AND RETHINKING GENDER RELATIONS /Jane Jenson, Co-ordinator -- Introduction to Part I - Intersections: Gender Categories in Time and Space /Jane Jenson -- 3 Time and Women’s Work: Historical Periodisations /Delphine Gardey -- 4 Where Have They Been Working and What Have They Been Doing? Historical Perspectives on Working Women /Sylvie Schweitzer -- 5 Immigrant Women and Their Daughters: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender /Frangoise Gaspard -- 6 The Sexual Division of Labour Re-examined /Helena Hirata and Daniele Kergoat -- 7 Re-signifying the Worker: Gender and Flexibility /Sylvia Walby -- PART II BE PREPARED: EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND SKILLING /Marlaine Cacouault and Catherine Marry, Co-ordinators -- Introduction to Part II - Variations on Women’s and Men’s Occupations /Marlaine Cacouault -- 8 A Hidden Curriculum? Coeducation and Gender Identity /Annick Durand-Delvigne and Marie Duru-Bellat -- 9 The Social Construction of Skill /Anne-Marie Daune-Richard -- 10 Secretarial Work and Technological Change /Philippe Alonzo and Olivier Liaroutzos -- 11 The French and German Educational Models and Their Consequences for Women /Catherine Marry -- PART III WOMEN’S RELATIONSHIP TO LABOUR MARKETS: MORE AND MORE PRECARIOUS? Chantal Rogerat and Rachel Silvera, Co-ordinators -- Introduction to Part III - (Wo)man-Handled by the Labour Market /Chantal Rogerat -- 12 The Enduring Wage Gap: A Europe-Wide Comparison /Rachel Silvera -- 13 Part-Time Work: Challenging the “Breadwinner” Gender Contract /Colette Fagan, Jacqueline O ’Reilly and Jill Rubery -- 14 Female Unemployment in France and the Rest of Europe /Annie Gauvin -- 15 Moving Towards the American Model? Women and Unemployment in Great Britain /Ariane Hegewisch -- 16 When Exclusion is Socially Acceptable: The Case of Spain /Teresa Toms -- PART IV PUBLIC POLICY: PROMOTING EQUALITY OR ENGENDERING NEW INEQUALITIES? /Jacqueline Laufer, Co-ordinator -- Introduction to Part IV - Public Sphere, Private Sphere: The Issue of Women’s Rights /Jacqueline Laufer -- 17 Equality at Work: What Difference does Legislating Make? /Marie-Therese Lanquetin -- 18 European Policies Promoting More Flexible Labour Forces /Daniele Meulders -- 19 Family Policy and the Labour Market in European Welfare States /Jane Lewis -- 20 France’s New Service Sector and the Family /Michel Lallement -- 21 Democracy Confronts the New Domestic Services /Genevieve Fraisse -- 22 Rethinking Time: There is More to Life than Working Time /Maria-Carmen Belloni, Jean-Yves Boulin and Annie Junter-Loiseau -- CONCLUSION -- 23 The Future Remains Open /Christian Baudelot.