20. Family policy, gender and work-family reconciliation
20.A
Rostgaard Tine ( SFI, DK)
Policies and practices in care (enclosed here)
Atas Yildis (Roskilde University, DK)
Work-life balance in European families
Mandel Hadas ( Tel-Aviv University, IL)
Family Policy and Gender inequality across classes
Marten Carina and Ochoa Esther ( Georg-August University, DE)
Varieties of Maternalism?
Distributed papers
Le Bihan Blanche (School of public health - EHESP, FR), Martin Claude
(CNRS and School of public health - EHESP, FR)
The role of European Social policies for work-family reconciliation in
the case of working women caring for an elderly relative
Pfau-Effinger Birgit (University of Hamburg, DE )
Innovation of family policy and new forms of care in European societies
20.B
Versantvoort Maroesjka (Leiden University –NL)
Complementarity in time spent on work and family
Boje Thomas and Ejrnaes Anders (Roskilde University, DK)
Working mothers in Europe: working time, preferences, gender norms and
housework
Solera Cristina (Torino University, IT)
Women between family and fpaid work: the changing effect of education
in Italy and Britain
Vos Allison E. (University of North Carolina, USA)
Falling Fertility Rates: New Challenges to the Welfare State
Distributed papers
Thévenon, Olivier (INED, FR)
The modernization of family policies in the OECD. From (mixed) means
to (balanced) ends?
One of the most conspicuous labour market trends in recent years has been the increase in female employment. To the European welfare states, this development provides both a promise and a challenge. On the one hand, high female participation rates are necessary to deal with the fiscal pressures from an ageing population; on the other hand, the increase in women´s employment has been associated with declining fertility rates, threatening the future labour supply. Also from a perspective of gender equality, the development is ambiguous, as women retain the main responsibility for children and housework. Considering these complexities, work/family reconciliation has become a prime concern for modern families as well as for governments and there is a need for research to better understand how family policies may contribute.
For this stream, we invite papers exploring the relationship between policies and work-family reconciliation. The studies may focus on different aspects of combining paid work and family: on health outcomes such as wellbeing and work-family conflict, on labour market involvement for mothers/parents, or on the relationship between state policy and family arrangements (for example informal care provisions, fertility and divorce rates etc). Also gender-role attitudes may be explored in this context.
The stream focusses on survey-based comparative studies, but also qualitative analyses and single-country studies that attempt to clarify the impacts of family policy may be presented. Theoretical contributions are also welcome.
Anne Grönlund
Department of Sociology
Umeå university
S-901 87 Umeå
Sweden
Tel.: +46 90 786 68 14
anne.gronlund@soc.umu.se
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