Dual-Earner Families: International Perspectives
Editat de Suzan Lewis, Dafna N Izraeli, Helen M Hootsmansen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 dec 1991
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780803983830
ISBN-10: 0803983832
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0803983832
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
`As corporations struggle with the development of policy that is appropriate for their global operations, this book should provide some welcome insights into the needs that working family members are expressing on an international scale.' - Work Times`The book clearly demonstrates the importance of avoiding ethnocentric analyses, while providing crossnational insights about the opportunities, pressures and potential `agendas for change' for dual earners. A most informative and topical volume, it makes interesting reading for those concerned with developments in the family, with changing patterns of work and employment, and with issues of gender and gender equality.' - IIRA Bulletin
`Drawing on material from many parts of the world this is an essential contribution to the debate about gender and role relationships.' - Journal of the Institute of Health Education
`essential reading for those concerned with developments in the family, with changing patterns of work and employment and with issues of gender and gender equality.' - American Sociological Association Newsletter
`This edited collection of 13 articles on the state of dual-earner families in several nations is probably the best available review summary of empirical studies on this topic. Each chapter is filled with data, and the international perspective is informative as it shows how different cultural and economic conditions have produced both the same and unique problems for the wives in this new family structure.... There is a wealth of information here which questions whether the nuclear dual-earner family is an ideal worth pursuit.' - Journal of Marriage and the Family
`this volume performs a valuable function by expanding the scope of existing literature.... This book will be a valuable resource for scholars interested in policy.' - Family Relations
`an important contribution to cross-national research by highlighting similarities and differences of social policies and norms of behaviour, and their impact on shaping women's options.... a valuable contribution to clarifying the current problems and prospects faced by working women, while indicating the wider implications for the public agenda.... relevance to many audiences.' - ndustrial Relations Journal
`The book effectively brings to life the problems encountered by dual-earner couples trying to combine the demands of domestic labour and paid employment. The editors successfully strike a balance between differences and similarities in context and in response to these problems. They examine change over time as well as continuity.... All the studies also make a contribution to the growing literature on the nature of the inter-dependence of decisions on the division of domestic labour (including care of children and the elderly) and those concerning employment outside the household. The strategies discussed for coping with the demands of employment and domestic work are wide ranging.... Lewis et al provide a useful way of moving beyond a narrowly Western view of the situation of dual-earners and include a discussion of future possibilities as well as past influences.' - Sociology
`Drawing on material from many parts of the world this is an essential contribution to the debate about gender and role relationships.' - Journal of the Institute of Health Education
`essential reading for those concerned with developments in the family, with changing patterns of work and employment and with issues of gender and gender equality.' - American Sociological Association Newsletter
`This edited collection of 13 articles on the state of dual-earner families in several nations is probably the best available review summary of empirical studies on this topic. Each chapter is filled with data, and the international perspective is informative as it shows how different cultural and economic conditions have produced both the same and unique problems for the wives in this new family structure.... There is a wealth of information here which questions whether the nuclear dual-earner family is an ideal worth pursuit.' - Journal of Marriage and the Family
`this volume performs a valuable function by expanding the scope of existing literature.... This book will be a valuable resource for scholars interested in policy.' - Family Relations
`an important contribution to cross-national research by highlighting similarities and differences of social policies and norms of behaviour, and their impact on shaping women's options.... a valuable contribution to clarifying the current problems and prospects faced by working women, while indicating the wider implications for the public agenda.... relevance to many audiences.' - ndustrial Relations Journal
`The book effectively brings to life the problems encountered by dual-earner couples trying to combine the demands of domestic labour and paid employment. The editors successfully strike a balance between differences and similarities in context and in response to these problems. They examine change over time as well as continuity.... All the studies also make a contribution to the growing literature on the nature of the inter-dependence of decisions on the division of domestic labour (including care of children and the elderly) and those concerning employment outside the household. The strategies discussed for coping with the demands of employment and domestic work are wide ranging.... Lewis et al provide a useful way of moving beyond a narrowly Western view of the situation of dual-earners and include a discussion of future possibilities as well as past influences.' - Sociology
Cuprins
Introduction - Suzan Lewis
Dual-Earner Families in Context
PART ONE: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Culture, Policy, and Women in Dual-Earner Families in Israel - Dafna N Izraeli
Middle-Class Dual-Earner Families and Their Support Systems in Urban India - Uma Sekaran
Dual-Earner Families in Singapore - Edith C Yuen and Vivien Lim
Issues and Challenges
Sweden's Sex-Role Scheme and Commitment to Gender Equality - Karin Sandqvist
Dual-Earner Families in Hungary - Christine Clason
Past, Present and Future Perspectives
PART TWO: IN THE FAMILY
British Households after Maternity Leave - Julia Brannen and Peter Moss
Financial Affairs - Rosanna Hertz
Money and Authority in Dual-Earner Marriage
Dual-Earner Families in the United States and Adolescent Development - Lucia Albino Gilbert and L Suzanne Dancer
Dual-Earner Families and the Care of the Elderly in Japan - Jeanette Taudin Chabot
PART THREE: WORK AND THE FAMILY: IMPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY
Beyond 1992 - Helen M Hootsmans
Dutch and British Corporations and the Challenge of Dual-Career Couples
Can Work Requirements Accommodate to the Needs of Dual-Earner Families? - Alice H Cook
Towards Balanced Lives and Gender Equality - Suzan Lewis, Dafna N Izraeli and Helen M Hootsmans
Dual-Earner Families in Context
PART ONE: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Culture, Policy, and Women in Dual-Earner Families in Israel - Dafna N Izraeli
Middle-Class Dual-Earner Families and Their Support Systems in Urban India - Uma Sekaran
Dual-Earner Families in Singapore - Edith C Yuen and Vivien Lim
Issues and Challenges
Sweden's Sex-Role Scheme and Commitment to Gender Equality - Karin Sandqvist
Dual-Earner Families in Hungary - Christine Clason
Past, Present and Future Perspectives
PART TWO: IN THE FAMILY
British Households after Maternity Leave - Julia Brannen and Peter Moss
Financial Affairs - Rosanna Hertz
Money and Authority in Dual-Earner Marriage
Dual-Earner Families in the United States and Adolescent Development - Lucia Albino Gilbert and L Suzanne Dancer
Dual-Earner Families and the Care of the Elderly in Japan - Jeanette Taudin Chabot
PART THREE: WORK AND THE FAMILY: IMPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY
Beyond 1992 - Helen M Hootsmans
Dutch and British Corporations and the Challenge of Dual-Career Couples
Can Work Requirements Accommodate to the Needs of Dual-Earner Families? - Alice H Cook
Towards Balanced Lives and Gender Equality - Suzan Lewis, Dafna N Izraeli and Helen M Hootsmans
Descriere
Addressing a significant gap in the literature to date, this book focuses on dual-earner families in the international context. It brings together contributions from a range of countries and continents to examine the issues and developments for dual-earner families located in different socio-cultural, political and economic systems.
In particular the book explores the ways in which dual-earner couples in these different contexts are reconstructing gender and family roles to balance the demands of work and the family.