Equity in the Workplace - Gendering Workplace Policy Analysis

List of contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Workplace Policy
Chapter 4 Globalization, Gender and Work: Perspectives on Global Regulation
Chapter 5 Policy Strategies in a Global Era for Gendered Workplace Equity
Chapter 6 Institutionally Embedded Gender Models: Re-regulating and Breadwinner Models in Germany and Japan
Chapter 6 European Gender Mainstreaming: Promises and Pitfalls of Transformative Policy
Part 7 Implications of Gender in the Workplace
Chapter 9 Parental Leave and Gender Equality: What Can the U.S. Learn from the European Union?
Chapter 9 Career Advancement Choices of Female Managers in U.S. Local Government
Chapter 10 An Assessment of Women's Acceptance as Breadwinners
Chapter 11 The Employment Insurance Model: Maternity, Paternal, and Sickness Benefits in Canada
Part 11 Reconciliation of Work and Family Life: Maternity, Parental, and Family Leave
Chapter 12 Erosion of the Male-Breadwinner Model? Female Labor-Market Participation and Family-Leave Policies in Germany
Chapter 13 Solving a Problem or Tinkering at the Margins? Work, Family and Caregiving
Chapter 13 Globalization and Work/Life Balance: Gendered Implications of New Initiatives at a U.S. Multinational in Japan
Chapter 14 Europeanizing the Military: The ECJ as a Catalyst in the Transformation of the Bundeswehr
Part 17 Specific Applications of Workplace Policies: Gender in Equity in the Workplace
Chapter 19 Implementing Sexual Harassment Law in the United States and Germany
Chapter 20 Sexual Harassment Policies and Employee Preferences in Local U.S. Government

About the author

Jacqueline O’Reilly is Professor of Comparative Human Resources at the University of Sussex Business School.

Product details

• Assisted by: Heidi Gottfried (Editor), Gottfried Heidi (Editor), Laura Reese (Editor), Reese Laura (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.12.2003
• EAN: 9780739106884
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-0688-4
• No. of pages: 424
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 649 g
• Series: Studies in Public Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Office Management, Office & workplace, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology: work & labour, Office and workplace, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General