International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 32 Issue 9/10

Pros and cons of family policies for mothers' labour market participation

Marina Hennig, Dörthe Gatermann, Anna Erika Hägglund

The purpose of this editorial is to examine sociological research on the possibilities and pitfalls of social policies for mothers' employment participation, and identify research…

How do employed women perceive the reconciliation of work and family life?: A seven‐country comparison of the impact of family policies on women's employment

Marina Hennig, Stefan Stuth, Mareike Ebach, Anna Erika Hägglund

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how employed women perceive the reconciliation of work and family life in Denmark, Germany, France, Finland, Great Britain, Sweden and…

Women's employment in the institutional and cultural context

Birgit Pfau‐Effinger

The purpose of this paper is to explore how cross‐national differences in the employment rates of women with children under age three can be explained. It argues that not only…

Trends and social divisions in maternal employment patterns following maternity leave in the UK

Colette Fagan, Helen Norman

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the social divisions in maternal employment patterns post‐childbirth, recorded by earlier studies have persisted for a later cohort…

Women's work interruptions and career prospects in Germany and Sweden

Marie Evertsson, Daniela Grunow

The purpose of this paper is to focus on two welfare state regimes with differing degrees of de‐familialisation strategies, Germany and Sweden, to study whether and how women's…

Reconciling work and family life for French mothers in the Sarkozy era: Working more to earn more?

Jan Windebank

The purpose of this paper is to analyse work‐family reconciliation policy during the Sarkozy presidency in France, assessing the extent to which Sarkozy's injunction on the French…

Policy and practice: The relationship between family policy regime and women's labour market participation in Europe

Thomas P. Boje, Anders Ejrnæs

The purpose of this paper is to develop a typology of different family policy systems in Europe and evaluate their impact on the employment strategy of mothers with care…

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