Lexington Books
Pages: 418
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-0688-4 • Hardback • December 2003 • $149.00 • (£115.00)
978-0-7391-2907-4 • Paperback • May 2008 • $60.99 • (£47.00)
978-1-4175-0333-9 • eBook • October 2004 • $58.00 • (£45.00)
Heidi Gottfried is an Associate Professor of Labor Affairs at Wayne State University. Laura Reese is a Professor in the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, also at Wayne State University.
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.
— Canadian Woman Studies
This book is a leading sally in what will likely be an increasing number of conference volumes devoted to cross-national comparisons of workplace policies.
— Choice