Making and Breaking Gender Inequalities in Work

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2024
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-3746-0 (ISBN)

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This timely book expertly analyses the persistence of gender inequalities in work. Despite the progress made through frameworks regulating work and employment relations, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated gender divides in labour markets. The authors present innovative ways to promote gender equality in a variety of industrial relations systems, welfare state models and labour market sectors.

Making and Breaking Gender Inequalities in Work offers a rich, global and comparative study of this critical topic, addressing developments in formal and informal economies in countries with different levels of economic development. Mia Rönnmar and Susan Hayter have carefully selected expert contributors who apply an interdisciplinary approach and combine a range of theories and methodologies to provide fresh insights on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, and on how to tackle gender inequalities in areas such as work–life balance, equality law, global value chains and collective bargaining.

Illustrating the key issues in the subject, this book is an excellent resource for academic researchers and scholars in the fields of industrial relations, work and employment relations, gender studies and equality, labour and international law. Policymakers and employers’ and workers’ organizations at the national, regional and international levels will also find the analysis informative and enlightening.

Edited by Mia Rönnmar, Professor of Private Law, Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden, and Past-President of ILERA and Susan Hayter, Lead Researcher, Industrial and Employment Relations, International Labour Organization (ILO)

Contents

Foreword by Marian Baird, Anne-Marie Greene and Gill Kirton xi
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction: making and breaking gender inequalities in work 2
Mia Rönnmar and Susan Hayter
PART II GENDER INEQUALITIES IN WORK
2 Workplace flexibility and the dilemmas of family-friendly
choice: a new perspective on the puzzling gender
inequality in Sweden 11
Anne Grönlund and Charlotta Magnusson
3 Work–family entanglement: drawing lessons from the
complex lives of low-income women 33
Ameeta Jaga, Bianca Stumbitz and Susan Lambert
4 Women workers on the frontline and the Coronavirus pandemic 54
Jill Rubery, Isabel Távora, Eva Herman, Abbie Winton
and Alejandro Castillo Larrain
5 Women workers during global value chain disruptions 75
Arianna Rossi and Anne Posthuma
PART III GOVERNANCE OF WORK
6 The role of equality law in addressing gender inequalities
in work and employment relations: experiences from the
European Union 97
Mia Rönnmar
7 What’s IR got to do with it? Building gender equality in
the post-pandemic future of work 116
Rae Cooper and Talara Lee
8 Collective agreements: advancing a transformation agenda
for gender equality? 137
Susan Hayter and Malena Bastida
9 The potential of gender (and intersectional) equality
indices: the case of Aotearoa New Zealand’s public service 160
Jane Parker, Noelle Donnelly, Janet Sayers, Patricia
Loga and Selu Paea
Index 189

Erscheinungsdatum	05.06.2024
Reihe/Serie	ILERA Publication series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-0353-3746-0 / 1035337460
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-3746-0 / 9781035337460
Zustand	Neuware