Careers of Couples in Contemporary Society
From Male Breadwinner to Dual-Earner Families
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 October 2001
- ISBN 9780199244911
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 244x163x28 mm
- Weight 722 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book studies the transformation of work in couples in Germany, the Netherlands, the Flemish part of Belgium, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, the United States, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, and China. It provides evidence that gender role change in couples has been slow and asymmetric, and demonstrates the importance of institutional differences among modern societies, determining the timing, speed, and pattern of the transition from male breadwinner to the dual-earner family mode.
MoreLong description:
This is the first systematic international comparative study of the transformation of couples' careers in modern societies. The countries included are Germany, the Netherlands, the Flemish part of Belgium, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, the United States, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, and China. Using longitudinal data, this book explores what has and what has not changed for couples in various countries due to women's greater involvement in paid employment. It provides evidence that despite substantial improvement in women's educational attainment and career opportunities in all the countries studied, dimensions of role specialization in dual-earner couples have not undergone transformation to the same extent. Gender role change within the family has generally been asymmetric, so that housework and childcare primarily remain 'women's work'. There are, however, also significant institutional differences among modern societies which determine a country's timing, speed, and pattern of change from the traditional male breadwinner to the dual-earner family model. In particular, the impact of males' resources on their female partners' employment careers is dependent on the welfare state regime. In conservative and Mediterranean welfare state regimes, women's paid employment is negatively correlated with the occupational position of their husbands. In liberal welfare state regimes, no impact of husbands' resources on their wives' labour force participation could be detected. In the social democratic welfare state regime and generally in (former) socialist countries, husbands' resources have a positive effect on their wives' employment so that occupational resources cumulate in dual-earner families.
"This book represents a very impressive theoretical and empirical achievement...the sheer quality of the substative contributions to this topic that are gathered here will make this volume an invaulable source of reference for many years to come". Contemporary Sociology
Table of Contents:
A Cross-National Comparative Approach to Couples' Careers
Theoretical Perspectives on Couples' Careers
Spouses' Employment Careers in (West) Germany
Couples' Labour Market Participation in the Netherlands
Couples' Careers in Flanders
The Employment Behaviour of Married Women in Italy
Spouses' Careers in Spain
Married Women's Employment Patterns in Britain
Coupled Careers: Pathways Through Work and Marriage in the United States
Earnings as a Force of Attraction and Specialisation in Sweden
Work Careers of Married Women in Denmark
Employment Patterns of Married Women in Poland
Employment Patterns in Hungarian Couples
Job Shift Patterns of Husbands and Wives in Urban China
Careers of Couples and Trends in Inequality
