Contains a selection of 22 articles that have been published in the International labour review between 1996 and 2000 on many dimensions of women, gender and work - preface.
Contents
Women, gender and work-an overview / Martha Fetherolf Loutfi -- New perspectives on work as value / Dominique Méda -- Work and rights / Amartya Sen -- Women and equality: the capabilities approach / Martha Nussbaum -- Gender issues in labour statistics / Adriana Mata Greenwood -- The enduring debate over unpaid labour / Lourdes Benería -- Data on race, ethnicity and gender: caveats for the user / Carolyn Shaw Bell -- Theories of occupational segregation by sex: an overview / Richard Anker -- Differences in occupational earnings by sex / Derek Robinson -- Occupational segregation by sex in Nordic countries: an empirical investigation / Helinä Melkas and Richard Anker -- Part-time work: solution or trap? / Patrick Bollé -- Women in management: closer to breaking through the glass ceiling? / Linda Wirth -- Sex-specific labour market indicators: what they show / Sara Elder and Lawrence Jeffrey Johnson -- Assessing equal opportunities in the European Union / Janneke Plantenga and Johan Hansen -- The family, flexible work and social cohesion at risk / Martin Carnoy -- Assigning care: gender norms and economic outcomes / M.V. Lee Badgett and Nancy Folbre -- Parental leave / Patrick Bollé -- Labour, gender and economic/social divide / Julie A. Nelson -- Women, men and management styles / Marie-Thérs̀e Claes -- Equal treatment, social protection and income security for women / Linda Luckhaus -- Affirmative action in employment: recent court approaches to a difficult concept / Jane Hodges Aeberhard -- Supranational action against sex discrimination: equal pay and equal treatment in the European Union / Ingeborg Heide -- Sexual harassment in employment: recent judicial and arbitral trends / Jane Hodges Aeberhard.
Summary
Contains a selection of 22 articles that have been published in the International labour review between 1996 and 2000 on many dimensions of women, gender and work--Preface.