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Attitudes, women's employment and the domestic division of labour: a cross-national analysis in two waves
- Authors:
- CROMPTON Rosemary, BROCKMANN Michaela, LYONETTE Clare
- Journal article citation:
- Work Employment and Society, 19(2), June 2005, pp.213-233.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article draws on a repeat of a 1994 survey, carried out in 2002, in three contrasting countries: Britain, Norway and the Czech Republic. The 1994 survey demonstrated that there was a significant association between more ‘liberal’ gender role attitudes and a less traditional division of domestic labour in all three countries. In 2002, this association was no longer significant for Britain and Norway. Gender role attitudes had become less traditional in all three countries, although women’s attitudes had changed more than men’s. There had been little change in the gendered allocation of household tasks, suggesting a slowing down of the increase of men’s involvement in domestic work. It is suggested that work intensification may be making increased participation in domestic work by men more difficult. Although national governments are becoming more aware and supportive of the problems of work-life ‘balance’, an increase in competitiveness and intensification at workplaces may be working against more ‘positive’ policy supports.
Social consequences of unemployment: an East-West comparison
- Author:
- GALLIE Duncan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 11(1), February 2001, pp.39-54.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The paper compares the experience of unemployment in Britain with that in three former state socialist societies - Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, countries with relatively recent welfare systems, providing a low level of coverage for the unemployed. The analysis examines the implications of the different types of welfare regime for financial stress, for social isolation