Gender, Place and the Labour Market

ISBN-13: 9780815389170 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 198 str.

Sarah Jenkins

Opis

This volume explores the geography of women's participation in the UK labour market and centres on the importance of work-home interdependencies and factors which both influence women's decision-making processes and contribute to the formation of their perceived societal role.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: women, work and home in the 21st century; Gendering the labour market; Women and the labour market: the shifting national context; The uneven development of women's participation in the labour market; Research design and methodology: moving beyond the national; Exploring the interdependencies: women and work; Exploring the interdependencies: women and home; Making sense of place; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Sarah Jenkins