Search Results for: Welfare States And Working Mothers

This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherl

This work focuses on the social constructions of motherhood in Scandinavia and discusses questions of central concern to western industrialized nations, asking

This book uses data from Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden to rethink welfare policy.

Though women’s employment patterns in Europe have been changing drastically over several decades, the repercussions of this social revolution are just beginni

While the extent of female participation in the labor force varies across western countries, most have experienced a substantial change in women's attachment to