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This new study uses longitudinal data to provide new insights into the changing dynamics of lives of women today. In particular, it explores the potential of longitudinal or life course analysis as a powerful tool for appreciating the gender dimension of social life.
List of contents
Part I Introduction: Women and social change, Elisabetta Ruspini; Survey designs for longitudinal research, Elisabetta Ruspini. Part II The issues: The role of education on postponement of maternity in Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, Siv Gustafsson, Eiko Kenjoh, and Cecile Wetzels; The financial consequences of relationship dissolution for women in Western Europe, Caroline Dewilde; Women's incomes over a synthetic lifetime, Heather Joshi, Hugh Davies; Fixed-term contracts and unemployment at the beginning of the employment career in Germany: does gender matter?, Karin Kurz; Women and self-employment - the case of television production workers in Britain, Shirley Dex, Colin Smith; Gender wage differentials in Britain and, Japan Yayoi Sugihashi, Angela Dale; Longitudinal analysis and the constitution of the concept of gender Jane Elliott. Part III Data sources: Concluding comments, Elisabetta Ruspini, Angela Dale. Appendix: Description and characteristics of longitudinal data sets used in the book, Elisabetta Ruspini.
About the author
Elisabetta Ruspini has a PhD in Sociology and Social Research and is a Lecturer in Social Research at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy). She has extensive research experience in gender issues, lone motherhood, social and family policies, the gender dimension of poverty, and the relationship between poverty and health for women.
Angela Dale is Professor of Quantitative Social Research at the University of Manchester and Director of the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research.
Summary
This new study uses longitudinal data to provide new insights into the changing dynamics of lives of women today. In particular, it explores the potential of longitudinal or life course analysis as a powerful tool for appreciating the gender dimension of social life.
