Account of an Independent Study Project about emancipation policies in the Netherlands and the subsequent effects of the policies on employed, Dutch mothers. The author focuses on: the Working Hours Modification Act, the Childcare Act and the Work and Care Act, and how these policies affect female labor market participation in the Netherlands.
Bundel met bijdragen over de stand van zaken in de landen van de Europese Unie wat betreft veranderende gezins- en arbeidsmarktstructuren en het combineren van betaalde arbeid en zorgarbeid. Bevat de volgende titels: Re-conceptualising families: Changing family forms and the allocation of caring: State policy and gender contracts: the Swedish experiment: Greek family policy from a comparative perspective: Recent changes in family policy in France: political trade-offs and economic constraints: Paid work and care of older people: a UK perspective: Employment and family lives: equalities and inequalities: Employment, flexibility and gender: Part-time employment in a European perspective: Homeworking: new approaches to an old problem: Labour policies, economic flexibility and women's work: the Italian experience: Atypical working time: examples from Denmark: Workplace culture, family-supportive policies and gender differences: Changing gender roles, state, work and family lives: The modernisation of motherhood: Class, mothers and equal opportunities to work: Working parents: experience from the Netherlands: Are fathers changing? Comparing some different images on sharing of childcare and domestic work: Family orientation among men: a process of change in Sweden