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1 online resource (381 pages) |
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Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics |
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Routledge IAFFE advances in feminist economics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Women and Austerity; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables and boxes; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Part I Developing the analytical framework; 1 Introduction -- women's vulnerability to recession and austerity: a different crisis, a different context; 2 From 'women and recession' to 'women and austerity': a framework for analysis; 3 Challenging the balkanization of gender contracts; Part II Recession and austerity: experiences in the EU and selected country cases; 4 Women and men in the 'Great European Recession' |
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5 Gender impacts of the 'Great Recession' in the United States6 Iceland in crisis: gender equality and social equity; 7 Gender, recession and austerity in the UK; 8 The labour market impact of the economic crisis in Hungary through the lens of gender equality; 9 Structural crisis and adjustment in Greece: social regression and the challenge to gender equality; 10 Ireland in crisis: women, austerity and inequality; 11 Employment and austerity: changing welfare and gender regimes in Portugal; 12 Women, gender equality and the economic crisis in Spain |
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13 Living through the crisis in Italy: the labour market experiences of men and womenPart III The policy challenges and the prospects for gender equality; 14 Policy in the time of crisis: employment policy and gender equality in Europe; 15 Gender, inequality and the crisis: towards more equitable development; 16 Economic crisis and austerity: challenges to gender equality; Index |
| Summary |
Austerity has become the new principle for public policy in Europe and the US as the financial crisis of 2008 has been converted into a public debt crisis. However, current austerity measures risk losing past progress towards gender equality by undermining important employment and social welfare protections and putting gender equality policy onto the back burner. This volume constitutes the first attempt to identify how the economic crisis and the subsequent austerity policies are affecting women in Europe and the US, tracing the consequences for gender equality in employment and welfare sy |
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Print version record |
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Women -- Employment -- United States
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Women -- Employment -- Europe
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Sex discrimination against women -- United States
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Sex discrimination against women -- Europe
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
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Sex discrimination against women
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Women -- Employment
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Europe
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rubery, Jill
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| ISBN |
9781135073985 |
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1135073988 |
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