Making and Breaking Gender Inequalities in Work

"This timely book expertly analyses the persistence of gender inequalities in work. Despite the progress made through frameworks regulating work and employment relations, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated gender divides in labour markets. The authors present innovative ways to promo...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher (publisher)
Other Authors: Rönnmar, Mia, editor (editor), Hayter, Susan, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing 2024.
Edition:First edition
Series:ILERA publication series.
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009834831106719
Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Foreword / by Marian Baird, Anne-Marie Greene and Gill Kirton
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Introduction: Making and breaking gender inequalities in work / Mia Rönnmar and Susan Hayter
  • Part II. Gender inequalities in work
  • 2. Workplace flexibility and the dilemmas of family-friendly choice: A new perspective on the puzzling gender inequality in Sweden / Anne Grönlund and Charlotta Magnusson
  • 3. Work-family entanglement: Drawing lessons from the complex lives of low-income women / Ameeta Jaga, Bianca Stumbitz and Susan Lambert
  • 4. Women workers on the frontline and the coronavirus pandemic / Jill Rubery, Isabel Távora, Eva Herman, Abbie Winton and Alejandro Castillo Larrain
  • 5. Women workers during global value chain disruptions / Arianna Rossi and Anne Posthuma
  • Part III. Governance of work
  • 6. The role of equality law in addressing gender inequalities in work and employment relations: Experiences from the European Union / Mia Rönnmar
  • 7. What's ir got to do with it? Building gender equality in the post-pandemic future of work / Rae Cooper and Talara Lee
  • 8. Collective agreements: Advancing a transformation agenda for gender equality? / Susan Hayter and Malena Bastida
  • 9. The potential of gender (and intersectional) equality indices: The case of Aotearoa New Zealand's public service / Jane Parker, Noelle Donnelly, Janet Sayers, Patricia Loga and Selu Paea
  • Index.