Women, gender and work: volume 2: social choices and inequalities

This volume contains a collection of 30 recent articles selected from the 'International labour review', offering the insights of economists, sociologists and lawyers into a wide range of gender issues and country settings. It provides an opportunity to reflect upon the connections between measured labour market outcomes and the real lives people lead, what work means to them, the care work continuum, and the very notion of 'gender equality'. A preface by Martha C. Nussbaum is followed by an introductory article, 'Social choices and inequalities' by Mark Lansky, Jayata Ghosh, Dominique Meda and Uma Rami.

Edited excerpts from publisher's website.

Part two, 'Concepts and conceptions', contains the following articles: Equality and empowerment for decent work / Bob Hepple; Discrimination and equality at work: a review of the concepts / Manuela Tomei; Inequality at work in the informal economy: key issues and illustrations / Barbara Harriss-White; Distribution of income and job opportunities: normative judgements from four continents / Deborah Levison, Joseph A. Ritter, Rosamund Stock and Richard Anker; Missing women?: the under-recording and under-reporting of women's work in Malaysia / Anja Karlsson Franck and Jerry Olsson; Life domain preferences among women and men in Israel: the effects of demographic variables / Moshe Sharabi. Part three, 'Female labour force participation: gender gaps and segregation', contains: Globalization, social exclusion and gender / Marilyn Carr and Martha Chen; Closing the gender gap in education: what is the state of gaps in labour force participation for women, wives and mothers / Ina Ganguli, Ricardo Hausmann and Martina Viarengo; Ethnic wage gaps in Peru: what drives the particular disadvantage of indigenous women / Alexandre Kolev and Pablo Suarez Robles; Unlimited unskilled labour and the sex segregation of occupations in Jamaica / Heather E. Ricketts and David V. Bernard; Falling female labour force participation in Kerala: empirical evidence of discouragement / Shalina Susan Mathew; Gender equality at work in sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of Mali's modern sector / Saliha Doumbia and Dominique Meurs; The socio-cultural dimension of women's labour force participation choices in Switzerland / Fabio B. Losa and Pau Origoni; Gender equality, part-time work and segregation in Europe / Theo Sparreboom; Gender and labour in times of austerity: Ireland, Italy and Portugal in comparative perspective / Tindara Addabbo, Amelia Bastos, Sara Falcao Casaca, Nata Duvvury and Aine Ni Leime.

Part four, 'From unpaid to underpaid: the care-work continuum', contains the following articles: Care workers in Argentina: at the crossroads of labour market institutions and care services / Valeria Esquivel; Underpaid and overworked: a cross-national perspective on care workers / Shahra Razavi and Silke Staab; How care-work employment shapes earnings in cross-national perspective / Michelle J. Budig and Joya Misra; Discounted labour?: disaggregating care work in comparative perspective / Naomi Lightman; Hierarchies of care work in South Africa: nurses, social workers and home-based care workers / Francie Lund; The expansion of social care and reform: implications for care workers in the Republic of Korea / Ito Peng; Care arrangements and bargains: anganwadi and paid domestic workers in India / Rajni Palriwala and N. Neetha; Childcare and geographical mobility in southern Europe / Ildefonso Mendez; The globalization of nurse migration: policy issues and responses / Nicola Yeates. Part five, 'Regulation of 'women's work': a mixed record', contains: Night work of women in industry: standards and sensibility / George Politakis; Women in the Japanese labour market, 1947-2003: a brief survey / Junko Kumamoto-Healey; Social security reform and gender equality: recent experience in central Europe / Elaine Fultz and Silke Steinhilber; The ILO's Domestic Workers Convention and Recommendation: a window of opportunity for social justice / Martin Oelz. Part six, 'Organization for empowerment and better work', contains the following articles: Collective bargaining and equality: making connections / Adelle Blackett and Colleen Sheppard; Challenges facing nurses' associations and unions: a global perspective / Paul F. Clark and Darlene A. Clark; Organizing migrant care workers in Israel: industrial citizenship and the trade union option / Guy Mundlak and Hila Shamir; Can more inclusive wage-setting institutions improve low-wage work?: pay trends in the United Kingdom's public-sector hospitals / Damian Grimshaw. Show less