Colette Fagan
Biographic Data
| ID | 246307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colette Fagan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colette |
| FAMILY NAME | Fagan |
| SIGNATURE | FAGAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3592-9154 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 510 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
The Division of Labour and Female Partners’ Relative Pay across Phases of Parenthood: Evidence from UK Dual-Earner Couples
The transition to first parenthood is a critical juncture at which both paid and unpaid work become more gendered within couples. From a life course perspective, parenthood is not a discrete event but a process that couples traverse together across successive phases. Far less is known, however, about how the gendered division of labour and its implications for the within-couple pay gap evolve across subsequent phases of parenthood. Using longitud…
Women Professors across STEMM and Non-STEMM Disciplines: Navigating Gendered Spaces and Playing the Academic Game
Women remain poorly represented in the highest positions in academia, despite their increasing participation. This article seeks to understand how women who have reached senior occupational positions in Higher Education Institutions have navigated their organisational and disciplinary settings. In the process we explore how experiences compare across male and female-dominated spaces, integrating field theory with Acker's work on 'gendered organis…
Does Fathers’ Involvement in Childcare and Housework Affect Couples’ Relationship Stability
Objective Building on previous analysis conducted by Schober (2012), we explore how paternal involvement in different childcare and housework tasks affects the probability of relationship breakdown between parents. Methods We use logistic regression on the U.K. Millennium Cohort Study to predict parental relationship breakdown from nine months to seven years post‐childbirth. Paternal involvement in four childcare and three housework tasks during …
Advancing Gender Equality through European Employment Policy: The Impact of the UK's EU Membership and the Risks of Brexit
This article examines the development of the EU's gender equality framework of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ law, including the incomplete gender mainstreaming of the European Employment Strategy. It highlights contradictions, rooted in political tensions between the social democratic principles which underpin the European Social Model, and the promotion of neo-liberal economic policies. It assesses the UK's role in shaping this European framework, and the f…
Women and European Employment
Which fathers are the most involved in taking care of their toddlers in the UK? An investigation of the predictors of paternal involvement
Economic provisioning continues to be the essence of 'good' fathering, and the work schedules associated with fathers' employment remain a key factor which shapes their involvement in childcare and domestic work at home. However, the relative impact of fathers' and mothers' employment hours on paternal involvement in childcare is unclear, and little is known about the longer-term impact, that is, whether a work arrangement organised when the chil…
Trends and social divisions in maternal employment patterns following maternity leave in the UK
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the social divisions in maternal employment patterns post‐childbirth, recorded by earlier studies have persisted for a later cohort of mothers that had a pregnancy in the early 2000s, in the context of an expansion of childcare and other improvements in reconciliation measures. Design/methodology/approach Longitudinal data from the UK's Millennium Cohort Study are analysed using logistic reg…
Individual Working-time Adjustments between Full-time and Part-time Working in European Firms
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 18, Number 2, Summer 2011
Class Transformation and Work-Life Balance in Urban Britain: The Case of Manchester
Recent years have seen an expansion in the work on the attitudes, beliefs and preferences of those middle-class groups that have accompanied the return of capital to many North American and western European city centres and their surrounding urban suburbs. Yet despite this, it is argued that there is little research linking gentrification to wider processes of social transformation, particularly debates over housing market decision-making, the ba…
Gender, Social Class and Work-Life Balance in the New Economy
Women in the European Union are increasingly expected to be in paid employment to meet the Lisbon Strategy targets for growth and competitiveness and to offset the rising costs of welfare, given increased ageing and declining fertility. Yet despite the passing of equalities legislation over 30 years ago, gender inequalities remain in the scale and character of paid employment and in the division of domestic labour.1 The lack of any real change in…
The subordination of the gender equality objective: The National Reform Programmes and ‘making work pay’ oplicies
The streamlining of the Lisbon strategy has introduced new integrated guidelines for economic policy and employment strategy and a new report format––the National Reform Programme. In the first year of this new reporting mechanism, Member States have paid less attention to gender mainstreaming and gender equality objectives, not least because the gender equality guideline has been removed. Streamlining has further exposed the narrow and instrumen…
Patterns of labour market integration in Europe--a life course perspective on time policies
This article examines the patterns of labour market integration over the life course of men and women in seven European countries. We select a range of household categories coinciding with different phases in the life course and use the European Community Household Panel survey to identify four broad national models, which are associated with different state regimes with regards to ‘time policy’. These are the Nordic ‘ universal breadwinner ’ mod…
Place, Class and Local Circuits of Reproduction: Exploring the Social Geography of Middle-class Childcare in London
In a recent revival of the older tradition of community studies, sociologists and geographers have begun to address the changing nature of attachment to locality in contemporary cities in advanced industrial societies. Challenging older definitions of attachment to place, a new form of communal attachment has recently been identified, termed 'elective belonging'. This sense of place is particularly important among the middle classes and is, it is…
Living and working in urban working class communities
Connecting Time and Space: The Significance of Transformations in Women's Work in the City
Growing numbers of women with children living in western cities are entering the labour market, raising new questions about changes in the allocation of the tasks of social reproduction between household members and others and about the effects of the increasing time women now spend in the workplace. As Manuel Castells noted over 25 years ago, women's unpaid labour has long been essential, not only in the domestic arena, but also in patching toge…
Gender mainstreaming in the enlarged European Union: Recent developments in the European employment strategy and Social Inclusion Process
The European Union (EU) has an explicit commitment to raise the employment rate for women and to advance gender mainstreaming (GM) and gender equality in both employment and social inclusion policies. In this article we assess developments in the latest round of National Action Plans (NAPs), with particular attention to the situations in the 10 new member states. GM continues to be patchy and inadequate, with a similarly narrow focus in both ‘old…
The Contradictions and Intersections of Class and Gender in a Global City: Placing Working Women's Lives on the Research Agenda
In this paper we examine the relationships between class and gender in the context of current debates about economic change in Greater London. It is a common contention of the global city thesis that new patterns of inequality and class polarisation are apparent as the expansion of high-status employment brings in its wake rising employment in low-status, poorly paid 'servicing' occupations. Whereas urban theorists tend to ignore gender divisions…
Work, Life and Time in the New Economy: An introduction
International audience
Women's paid work and moral economies of care
Female labour force participation has been increasing in recent decades, in part encouraged by state policies to raise the employment rate to encourage economic competitiveness and combat social exclusion. Social provision for care, however, has lagged behind this increase, creating practical and moral dilemmas for individuals and for society, facing parents with complex choices about how to combine work and care. In this paper, we draw on a qual…
Globalisation and Social Change: Editorial Introduction
Time, Money and the Gender Order: Work Orientations and Working‐Time Preferences in Britain
In the context of economic restructuring and the reorganization of working time, the question of working‐time preferences is emerging as an important component of both academic and policy debates. Much of the debate about preferences is based upon conjuncture or inadequate indicators, often drawing oppositional models of gender differences in preferences which neglect the similarities between the sexes. This article starts by developing a framewo…
Economic polarization, leisure practices and policies, and the quality of life: A study in post-communist Moscow
Since the 1980s Russia has been transformed from one of the world's most equal into one of its most unequal countries, certainly in terms of income levels. This paper, based on survey research in Moscow in 1997, explores the implications of this economic polarization for the population's uses of leisure and the quality of their lives. The analysis juxtaposes and compares alternative, Russian and Western, approaches to measuring the quality of lei…
The Temporal Reorganization of Employment and the Household Rhythm of Work Schedules: The Implications for Gender and Class Relations
Working-time arrangements are being restructured across Europe in parallel with the spread of dual-earner arrangements for couples. This article elaborates the different temporal dimensions to the employment relationship, distinguishing between the different dimensions of working-time schedules, work-time intensity, and the time-money exchange. This conceptualization is used to draw attention to occupational class, gender, and household differenc…
Women's Employment in Europe: Trends and Prospects
Based on extensive original research, this volume examines contemporary patterns of womens employment in Europe in the context of the profound economic, social and cultural changes that have taken place in recent years. It considers the progress made towards equal treatment in the labour market in the light of European Union action programmes, and
Old and New Routes into the Labour Markets in Ex-communist Countries
The results from surveys in 1997 among 900 20–26-year-olds in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine are presented and discussed. It is described how, in the 1990s, young people were still following their countries' old career routes whereby different kinds of family backgrounds led to different kinds of education which then led into corresponding kinds of occupations. However, in the 1990s these different kinds of occupations had ceased to be arranged in …
Women's paid work and moral economies of care
Female labour force participation has been increasing in recent decades, in part encouraged by state policies to raise the employment rate to encourage economic competitiveness and combat social exclusion. Social provision for care, however, has lagged behind this increase, creating practical and moral dilemmas for individuals and for society, facing parents with complex choices about how to combine work and care. In this paper, we draw on a qual…
Time, Money and the Gender Order: Work Orientations and Working‐Time Preferences in Britain
In the context of economic restructuring and the reorganization of working time, the question of working‐time preferences is emerging as an important component of both academic and policy debates. Much of the debate about preferences is based upon conjuncture or inadequate indicators, often drawing oppositional models of gender differences in preferences which neglect the similarities between the sexes. This article starts by developing a framewo…
Gender Segregation in Societal Context
Current controversies over indices of segregation emphasise the issue of measuring the level of segregation at the expense of analysis of the meaning of segregation. Comparative research into patterns of segregation across European member states has revealed that there is some evidence of similarities in patterns and trends, but to understand their significance for women's employment outcomes an appreciation of differences in the structural organ…
National Working-Time Regimes and Equal Opportunities
Progress towards equal opportunities is critically dependent upon the development of a more equal and more balanced allocation of time in both paid and unpaid work. Gender divisions relating to working time arise primarily from differences in gender divisions within the household but the extent and form that these gender divisions take in the labor market are moderated or mediated by national working-time regimes. These regimes are found to be ex…
Work, Life and Time in the New Economy: An introduction
International audience
Which fathers are the most involved in taking care of their toddlers in the UK? An investigation of the predictors of paternal involvement
Economic provisioning continues to be the essence of 'good' fathering, and the work schedules associated with fathers' employment remain a key factor which shapes their involvement in childcare and domestic work at home. However, the relative impact of fathers' and mothers' employment hours on paternal involvement in childcare is unclear, and little is known about the longer-term impact, that is, whether a work arrangement organised when the chil…
Women Professors across STEMM and Non-STEMM Disciplines: Navigating Gendered Spaces and Playing the Academic Game
Women remain poorly represented in the highest positions in academia, despite their increasing participation. This article seeks to understand how women who have reached senior occupational positions in Higher Education Institutions have navigated their organisational and disciplinary settings. In the process we explore how experiences compare across male and female-dominated spaces, integrating field theory with Acker's work on 'gendered organis…
The Temporal Reorganization of Employment and the Household Rhythm of Work Schedules: The Implications for Gender and Class Relations
Working-time arrangements are being restructured across Europe in parallel with the spread of dual-earner arrangements for couples. This article elaborates the different temporal dimensions to the employment relationship, distinguishing between the different dimensions of working-time schedules, work-time intensity, and the time-money exchange. This conceptualization is used to draw attention to occupational class, gender, and household differenc…
The Contradictions and Intersections of Class and Gender in a Global City: Placing Working Women's Lives on the Research Agenda
In this paper we examine the relationships between class and gender in the context of current debates about economic change in Greater London. It is a common contention of the global city thesis that new patterns of inequality and class polarisation are apparent as the expansion of high-status employment brings in its wake rising employment in low-status, poorly paid 'servicing' occupations. Whereas urban theorists tend to ignore gender divisions…
Patterns of labour market integration in Europe--a life course perspective on time policies
This article examines the patterns of labour market integration over the life course of men and women in seven European countries. We select a range of household categories coinciding with different phases in the life course and use the European Community Household Panel survey to identify four broad national models, which are associated with different state regimes with regards to ‘time policy’. These are the Nordic ‘ universal breadwinner ’ mod…
Living and working in urban working class communities
Place, Class and Local Circuits of Reproduction: Exploring the Social Geography of Middle-class Childcare in London
In a recent revival of the older tradition of community studies, sociologists and geographers have begun to address the changing nature of attachment to locality in contemporary cities in advanced industrial societies. Challenging older definitions of attachment to place, a new form of communal attachment has recently been identified, termed 'elective belonging'. This sense of place is particularly important among the middle classes and is, it is…
Advancing Gender Equality through European Employment Policy: The Impact of the UK's EU Membership and the Risks of Brexit
This article examines the development of the EU's gender equality framework of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ law, including the incomplete gender mainstreaming of the European Employment Strategy. It highlights contradictions, rooted in political tensions between the social democratic principles which underpin the European Social Model, and the promotion of neo-liberal economic policies. It assesses the UK's role in shaping this European framework, and the f…
Individual Working-time Adjustments between Full-time and Part-time Working in European Firms
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 18, Number 2, Summer 2011
The Salience of the Part-time Divide in the European Union
This paper assesses the salience of the distinction between full-time and part-time work for the crossnational analysis of divisions within the female labour force. Occupational, household, and attitudinal data from the European Union labour-force survey are used to consider the similarity and difference between member states in the extent and form of part-time work and in the supply of labour for part time work. Part-timers are found to be more …
Connecting Time and Space: The Significance of Transformations in Women's Work in the City
Growing numbers of women with children living in western cities are entering the labour market, raising new questions about changes in the allocation of the tasks of social reproduction between household members and others and about the effects of the increasing time women now spend in the workplace. As Manuel Castells noted over 25 years ago, women's unpaid labour has long been essential, not only in the domestic arena, but also in patching toge…
Trends and social divisions in maternal employment patterns following maternity leave in the UK
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the social divisions in maternal employment patterns post‐childbirth, recorded by earlier studies have persisted for a later cohort of mothers that had a pregnancy in the early 2000s, in the context of an expansion of childcare and other improvements in reconciliation measures. Design/methodology/approach Longitudinal data from the UK's Millennium Cohort Study are analysed using logistic reg…
Gendered Time Schedules: Paid Work in Great Britain
Journal Article Gendered Time Schedules: Paid Work in Great Britain Get access COLETTE FAGAN COLETTE FAGAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Pages 72–106, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/3.1.72 Published: 01 March 1996
Does Fathers’ Involvement in Childcare and Housework Affect Couples’ Relationship Stability
Objective Building on previous analysis conducted by Schober (2012), we explore how paternal involvement in different childcare and housework tasks affects the probability of relationship breakdown between parents. Methods We use logistic regression on the U.K. Millennium Cohort Study to predict parental relationship breakdown from nine months to seven years post‐childbirth. Paternal involvement in four childcare and three housework tasks during …
Class Transformation and Work-Life Balance in Urban Britain: The Case of Manchester
Recent years have seen an expansion in the work on the attitudes, beliefs and preferences of those middle-class groups that have accompanied the return of capital to many North American and western European city centres and their surrounding urban suburbs. Yet despite this, it is argued that there is little research linking gentrification to wider processes of social transformation, particularly debates over housing market decision-making, the ba…
Old and New Routes into the Labour Markets in Ex-communist Countries
The results from surveys in 1997 among 900 20–26-year-olds in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine are presented and discussed. It is described how, in the 1990s, young people were still following their countries' old career routes whereby different kinds of family backgrounds led to different kinds of education which then led into corresponding kinds of occupations. However, in the 1990s these different kinds of occupations had ceased to be arranged in …
Young people and their leisure in former communist countries: Four theses examined
This paper interrogates four theses against data from 1997 surveys among a total of 900 young people in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine. Three of the theses - that post-communist youth at leisure are divided primarily by their various (postmodern) youth cultures, immiseration, and that money has become the main stratifying factor - are rejected. The fourth, that traditional gender and social class divisions are surviving, is endorsed. It is argued t…
Young People's Participation in Sport and other Leisure Activities in the Former Soviet Union
This paper uses evidence from surveys in 1997 among a total of 900 young people (aged 20–26) in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine to assess the impact of post-communism on their participation in sport and other leisure activities. Despite the rundown of public facilities and organized youth sport, participation was holding up reasonably well.Young males (and rather fewer females) were creating their own opportunities to play sport in parks and other o…
Equal pay policy and wage regulation systems in Europe
This article argues that there is no one ideal wage determination system for gender pay equity. Different forms and levels of regulation provide different services and functions. Specific policies need to be sensitive to conditions within European member states with the EC acting as a catalyst to and monitor of change.
Gender Segregation in Societal Context
Current controversies over indices of segregation emphasise the issue of measuring the level of segregation at the expense of analysis of the meaning of segregation. Comparative research into patterns of segregation across European member states has revealed that there is some evidence of similarities in patterns and trends, but to understand their significance for women's employment outcomes an appreciation of differences in the structural organ…
Gendered Time Schedules: Paid Work in Great Britain
Journal Article Gendered Time Schedules: Paid Work in Great Britain Get access COLETTE FAGAN COLETTE FAGAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Pages 72–106, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/3.1.72 Published: 01 March 1996
The Salience of the Part-time Divide in the European Union
This paper assesses the salience of the distinction between full-time and part-time work for the crossnational analysis of divisions within the female labour force. Occupational, household, and attitudinal data from the European Union labour-force survey are used to consider the similarity and difference between member states in the extent and form of part-time work and in the supply of labour for part time work. Part-timers are found to be more …
Part-Time Prospects: An international comparison of part-time work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim
The growth in part-time employment has been one of the most striking features in industrialized economies over the past forty years. Part-Time Prospects presents for the first time a systematically comparative analysis of the common and divergent patterns in the use of part-time work in Europe, America and the Pacific Rim. It brings together sociologists and economists in this wide-ranging and comprehensive survey. It tackles such areas as gender…
National Working-Time Regimes and Equal Opportunities
Progress towards equal opportunities is critically dependent upon the development of a more equal and more balanced allocation of time in both paid and unpaid work. Gender divisions relating to working time arise primarily from differences in gender divisions within the household but the extent and form that these gender divisions take in the labor market are moderated or mediated by national working-time regimes. These regimes are found to be ex…
Women's Employment in Europe: Trends and Prospects
Based on extensive original research, this volume examines contemporary patterns of womens employment in Europe in the context of the profound economic, social and cultural changes that have taken place in recent years. It considers the progress made towards equal treatment in the labour market in the light of European Union action programmes, and
Old and New Routes into the Labour Markets in Ex-communist Countries
The results from surveys in 1997 among 900 20–26-year-olds in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine are presented and discussed. It is described how, in the 1990s, young people were still following their countries' old career routes whereby different kinds of family backgrounds led to different kinds of education which then led into corresponding kinds of occupations. However, in the 1990s these different kinds of occupations had ceased to be arranged in …
Young People's Participation in Sport and other Leisure Activities in the Former Soviet Union
This paper uses evidence from surveys in 1997 among a total of 900 young people (aged 20–26) in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine to assess the impact of post-communism on their participation in sport and other leisure activities. Despite the rundown of public facilities and organized youth sport, participation was holding up reasonably well.Young males (and rather fewer females) were creating their own opportunities to play sport in parks and other o…
Young people and their leisure in former communist countries: Four theses examined
This paper interrogates four theses against data from 1997 surveys among a total of 900 young people in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine. Three of the theses - that post-communist youth at leisure are divided primarily by their various (postmodern) youth cultures, immiseration, and that money has become the main stratifying factor - are rejected. The fourth, that traditional gender and social class divisions are surviving, is endorsed. It is argued t…
Equal Pay in Europe? Closing the Gender Wage Gap
Preface - Acknowledgements - Payment Systems and Gender Pay Differentials: Some Societal Effects - PART ONE: EQUAL PAY IN GERMANY - Case-Study of a German Hospital - Gender-Specific Pay Differentials in Banking: Case-Study of A-Bank in Germany - The Chemical Industry in Germany: A Case-Study of the S Company - PART TWO: EQUAL PAY IN ITALY - Health Services - Telecommunications - Banking - PART THREE: EQUAL PAY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM - Payment Syst…
Time, Money and the Gender Order: Work Orientations and Working‐Time Preferences in Britain
In the context of economic restructuring and the reorganization of working time, the question of working‐time preferences is emerging as an important component of both academic and policy debates. Much of the debate about preferences is based upon conjuncture or inadequate indicators, often drawing oppositional models of gender differences in preferences which neglect the similarities between the sexes. This article starts by developing a framewo…
Economic polarization, leisure practices and policies, and the quality of life: A study in post-communist Moscow
Since the 1980s Russia has been transformed from one of the world's most equal into one of its most unequal countries, certainly in terms of income levels. This paper, based on survey research in Moscow in 1997, explores the implications of this economic polarization for the population's uses of leisure and the quality of their lives. The analysis juxtaposes and compares alternative, Russian and Western, approaches to measuring the quality of lei…
The Temporal Reorganization of Employment and the Household Rhythm of Work Schedules: The Implications for Gender and Class Relations
Working-time arrangements are being restructured across Europe in parallel with the spread of dual-earner arrangements for couples. This article elaborates the different temporal dimensions to the employment relationship, distinguishing between the different dimensions of working-time schedules, work-time intensity, and the time-money exchange. This conceptualization is used to draw attention to occupational class, gender, and household differenc…
Globalisation and Social Change: Editorial Introduction
Gender mainstreaming in the enlarged European Union: Recent developments in the European employment strategy and Social Inclusion Process
The European Union (EU) has an explicit commitment to raise the employment rate for women and to advance gender mainstreaming (GM) and gender equality in both employment and social inclusion policies. In this article we assess developments in the latest round of National Action Plans (NAPs), with particular attention to the situations in the 10 new member states. GM continues to be patchy and inadequate, with a similarly narrow focus in both ‘old…
The Contradictions and Intersections of Class and Gender in a Global City: Placing Working Women's Lives on the Research Agenda
In this paper we examine the relationships between class and gender in the context of current debates about economic change in Greater London. It is a common contention of the global city thesis that new patterns of inequality and class polarisation are apparent as the expansion of high-status employment brings in its wake rising employment in low-status, poorly paid 'servicing' occupations. Whereas urban theorists tend to ignore gender divisions…
Work, Life and Time in the New Economy: An introduction
International audience
Women's paid work and moral economies of care
Female labour force participation has been increasing in recent decades, in part encouraged by state policies to raise the employment rate to encourage economic competitiveness and combat social exclusion. Social provision for care, however, has lagged behind this increase, creating practical and moral dilemmas for individuals and for society, facing parents with complex choices about how to combine work and care. In this paper, we draw on a qual…
The subordination of the gender equality objective: The National Reform Programmes and ‘making work pay’ oplicies
The streamlining of the Lisbon strategy has introduced new integrated guidelines for economic policy and employment strategy and a new report format––the National Reform Programme. In the first year of this new reporting mechanism, Member States have paid less attention to gender mainstreaming and gender equality objectives, not least because the gender equality guideline has been removed. Streamlining has further exposed the narrow and instrumen…
Patterns of labour market integration in Europe--a life course perspective on time policies
This article examines the patterns of labour market integration over the life course of men and women in seven European countries. We select a range of household categories coinciding with different phases in the life course and use the European Community Household Panel survey to identify four broad national models, which are associated with different state regimes with regards to ‘time policy’. These are the Nordic ‘ universal breadwinner ’ mod…
Place, Class and Local Circuits of Reproduction: Exploring the Social Geography of Middle-class Childcare in London
In a recent revival of the older tradition of community studies, sociologists and geographers have begun to address the changing nature of attachment to locality in contemporary cities in advanced industrial societies. Challenging older definitions of attachment to place, a new form of communal attachment has recently been identified, termed 'elective belonging'. This sense of place is particularly important among the middle classes and is, it is…
Living and working in urban working class communities
Connecting Time and Space: The Significance of Transformations in Women's Work in the City
Growing numbers of women with children living in western cities are entering the labour market, raising new questions about changes in the allocation of the tasks of social reproduction between household members and others and about the effects of the increasing time women now spend in the workplace. As Manuel Castells noted over 25 years ago, women's unpaid labour has long been essential, not only in the domestic arena, but also in patching toge…
Gender, Social Class and Work-Life Balance in the New Economy
Women in the European Union are increasingly expected to be in paid employment to meet the Lisbon Strategy targets for growth and competitiveness and to offset the rising costs of welfare, given increased ageing and declining fertility. Yet despite the passing of equalities legislation over 30 years ago, gender inequalities remain in the scale and character of paid employment and in the division of domestic labour.1 The lack of any real change in…
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