Abstract
Introduction: a comparative perspective on work and gender, Jane jenson an overview of the major issues, Margaret Maruani. Part 1 Categorical messages - thinking and rethinking gender relations: introduction - intersections - gender categories in space and time, Jane Jenson time and women's work - historical periodizations, Delphine Gardey where have they been working and what have they been doing? - historical perspectives on working women, Sylvie Schweitzer immigrant women and their daughters - intersections of race, class and gender, Francoise Gaspard the sexual division of labour re-examined, Helena Hirata and Daniele Kergoat resignifying the worker - gender and flexibility, Sylvia Walby. Part 2 Be prepared - education, training and skilling: introduction - variations on women's and men's occupations, marlaine Cacouault a hidden curriculum? - coeducation and gender identity, Annick Durand-Delvigne and Marie Duru-Bellat the social construction of skill, Anne Marie Daune-Richard secretarial work and technological change, Philippe Alonzo and Olivier Liaroutzos the French and German educational models and their consequences for women, Catherine Marry. Part 3 Women's relationship to labour markets - more and more precarious?: introduction - (wo)man-handled by the labour market, Chantal Rogerat the enduring wage gap - a Europe-wode comparison, Rachel Silvera part-time work - challenging the breadwinner gender contract?, Colette Fagan, Jacqueline O'Reilly and Jill Rubery female unemployment in France and the rest of Europe, Annie Gauvin moving towards the American model? - women and unemployment in Great Britain, Ariane Hegewisch when exclusion is socially acceptable, the case of Spain, Teresa Torns: part 4 Public policy - promoting equality or engendering new inequalities?: introduction - public sphere, private sphere - the issue of women's rights, Jacqueline Laufer equality at work - what difference does legislating make?, Marie-Therese Lanquetin European policies promoting more flexible labour forces, Daniele Meulders family policy and the labour market in European welfare states, Jane Lewis France's new service sector and the family, Michel Lallement democracy confronts the new domestic services, Genevieve Fraisse rethinking time - there is more to life than working time, Maria-Carmen Belloni, Jean-Yves Boulin and Annie Junter-Loiseau. Conclusion: the future remains open, Christian Baudelot.
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