Making and Breaking Gender Inequalities in Work

Edited by Mia Rönnmar, Vice-chancellor, Malmö University, Sweden and Past-President of ILERA and Susan Hayter, Lead Researcher, Industrial and Employment Relations, International Labour Organization (ILO)

• ContentsForeword by Marian Baird, Anne-Marie Greene and Gill Kirton xiPART I INTRODUCTION1 Introduction: making and breaking gender inequalities in work 2Mia Rönnmar and Susan HayterPART II GENDER INEQUALITIES IN WORK2 Workplace flexibility and the dilemmas of family-friendlychoice: a new perspective on the puzzling genderinequality in Sweden 11Anne Grönlund and Charlotta Magnusson3 Work–family entanglement: drawing lessons from thecomplex lives of low-income women 33Ameeta Jaga, Bianca Stumbitz and Susan Lambert4 Women workers on the frontline and the Coronavirus pandemic 54Jill Rubery, Isabel Távora, Eva Herman, Abbie Wintonand Alejandro Castillo Larrain5 Women workers during global value chain disruptions 75Arianna Rossi and Anne PosthumaPART III GOVERNANCE OF WORK6 The role of equality law in addressing gender inequalitiesin work and employment relations: experiences from theEuropean Union 97Mia Rönnmar7 What’s IR got to do with it? Building gender equality inthe post-pandemic future of work 116Rae Cooper and Talara Lee8 Collective agreements: advancing a transformation agendafor gender equality? 137Susan Hayter and Malena Bastida9 The potential of gender (and intersectional) equalityindices: the case of Aotearoa New Zealand’s public service 160Jane Parker, Noelle Donnelly, Janet Sayers, PatriciaLoga and Selu PaeaIndex 189

‘This timely volume brings together leading feminist scholars to analyze the causes and potential labor governance solutions to persistent patterns of gender inequities in the world of work – inequities that were greatly exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. With a broad array of case studies across countries and sectors, it makes an important contribution to our understanding of efforts to achieve social justice at work.’