Equity in the Workplace

Gendering Workplace Policy Analysis

Contributions by Heidi Berggren, Katherine Bird, Karin Gottschall, Linda Haas, Wendy Hassett, Ilse Lenz, Ulrike Liebert, Karen Lindenberg, Jacqueline O'Reilly, Glenda Roberts, Eileen Trzcinski, Sylvia Walby, Steven K. Wisensale Ph.D., University of Conn, Alison Woodward, Kathrin Zippel Edited by Heidi Gottfried, Laura Reese

Publication date:

27 December 2003

Length of book:

424 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

236x162mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780739106884

This edited collection assembles cutting-edge comparative policy research on contemporary policies relevant to gender and workplace issues. Contributors analyze contemporary gender-related employment policies ranging from parental leave and maternity programs, sexual harassment, and work/life balance to gender mainstreaming. Gender and Work in Comparative Perspective thoroughly illustrates the richness of understanding that can be gained through the juxtaposition of a variety of research methodologies focused on a common theme. The side-by-side presentation of single case studies on countries such as Canada, the United States, Germany, and Japan allows readers to compare and understand a wide range of policy options, thereby integrating what are usually separate bodies of research on the role of gender in welfare state developments, employment transformations, workplace policies, and work experience. An essential tool for scholars in many fields, this volume clearly illustrates how national approaches to gender and workplace policy form a spectrum of alternatives that, while rooted in the historical and social cultures of individual nation-states, are also subject to similar international global and economic forces.

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Workplace Policy
Chapter 4 Globalization, Gender and Work: Perspectives on Global Regulation
Chapter 5 Policy Strategies in a Global Era for Gendered Workplace Equity
Chapter 6 Institutionally Embedded Gender Models: Re-regulating and Breadwinner Models in Germany and Japan
Chapter 6 European Gender Mainstreaming: Promises and Pitfalls of Transformative Policy
Part 7 Implications of Gender in the Workplace
Chapter 9 Parental Leave and Gender Equality: What Can the U.S. Learn from the European Union?
Chapter 9 Career Advancement Choices of Female Managers in U.S. Local Government
Chapter 10 An Assessment of Women's Acceptance as Breadwinners
Chapter 11 The Employment Insurance Model: Maternity, Paternal, and Sickness Benefits in Canada
Part 11 Reconciliation of Work and Family Life: Maternity, Parental, and Family Leave
Chapter 12 Erosion of the Male-Breadwinner Model? Female Labor-Market Participation and Family-Leave Policies in Germany
Chapter 13 Solving a Problem or Tinkering at the Margins? Work, Family and Caregiving
Chapter 13 Globalization and Work/Life Balance: Gendered Implications of New Initiatives at a U.S. Multinational in Japan
Chapter 14 Europeanizing the Military: The ECJ as a Catalyst in the Transformation of the Bundeswehr
Part 17 Specific Applications of Workplace Policies: Gender in Equity in the Workplace
Chapter 19 Implementing Sexual Harassment Law in the United States and Germany
Chapter 20 Sexual Harassment Policies and Employee Preferences in Local U.S. Government

Readers benefit from the rich, locally grounded studies, each of which contributes to the historical and critical analysis of the individual nation state, but even more significantly, from the lessons we might carry from place to place in understanding the breadth of policy options and the strategies employed by women to alter workplace practices. . . . the articles in this volume are clearly written and well researched. The variety of methodologies is welcome.