Gendering of Inequalities

Jane Jenson, Jacqueline Laufer, Margaret Maruani

• Introduction; 1: A Comparative Perspective on Work and Gender; 2: An Overview of the Major Issues; I: Categorical Messages: Thinking and Rethinking Gender Relations; Introduction to Part I Intersections: Gender Categories in Time and Space; 3: Time and Women's Work: Historical Periodisations; 4: Where Have They Been Working and What Have They Been Doing? Historical Perspectives on Working Women; 5: Immigrant Women and Their Daughters: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender; 6: The Sexual Division of Labour Re-examined; 7: Re-signifying the Worker: Gender and Flexibility; II: Be Prepared: Education, Training, and Skilling; Introduction to Part II Variations on Women's and Men's Occupations; 8: A Hidden Curriculum? Coeducation and Gender Identity; 9: The Social Construction of Skill; 10: Secretarial Work and Technological Change; 11: The French and German Educational Models and Their Consequences for Women; III: Women's Relationship to Labour Markets: More and More Precarious?; Introduction to Part III (Wo)man-Handled by the Labour Market; 12: The Enduring Wage Gap: A Europe-Wide Comparison; 13: Part-Time Work: Challenging the Breadwinner Gender Contract; 14: Female Unemployment in France and the Rest of Europe; 15: Moving Towards the American Model? Women and Unemployment in Great Britain; 16: When Exclusion is Socially Acceptable: The Case of Spain; IV: Public Policy: Promoting Equality or Engendering New Inequalities?; Introduction to Part IV Public Sphere, Private Sphere: The Issue of Women's Rights; 17: Equality at Work: What Difference does Legislating Make?; 18: European Policies Promoting More Flexible Labour Forces; 19: Family Policy and the Labour Market in European Welfare States; 20: France's New Service Sector and the Family; 21: Democracy Confronts the New Domestic Services; 22: Rethinking Time: There is More to Life than Working Time; Conclusion; 23: The Future Remains Open