Women's employment in a comparative perspective

1. Introduction: Women's Employment in a Comparative Perspective / Tanja van der Lippe and Liset van Dijk

Pt. I. Macro Approach

2. Conflicts of Gender and Class: Paradoxes of Women's Occupational Mobility in Post-1989 Hungary / Julia Szalai

3. Macro Changes in Public Childcare Provision, Parental Leave, and Women's Employment: and International Comparison / Liset van Dijk

4. Work-Family Arrangements in Organizations: An International Comparison / Laura den Dulk

5. Organizations, Equal Opportunity Policies, and the Position of Women: The Case of the Netherlands / Chantal Remery

Pt. II. Micro Approach

6. How Do Children Matter?: A Comparison of Gender Earnings Inequality for Young Adults in the Former East Germany and the Former West Germany / Heike Trappe and Rachel A. Rosenfeld

7. Women's Employment and Care of Children in the United States / Sandra L. Hofferth

Pt. III. Macro-Micro Approach

8. Harmonizing Work and Family in the European Union: Public Perceptions of Children as an Obstacle to Women's Employment / April Brayfield, Rachel K. Jones and Marina A. Adler

9. Are Secondary Part-Time Jobs Marginalized?: Job Characteristics of Women Employed Less Than Twenty Hours a Week in the European Union / Kea G. Tijdens

10. Effect of Individual and Institutional Constraints on Hours of Paid Work of Women: An International Comparison / Tanja van der Lippe

11. Women and Men in State-Socialist and Market-Regulated Societies: Gender Differences in Ascription and Achievement in the First Job / Susanne Rijken and Harry B. G. Ganzeboom

12. Conclusion / Liset van Dijk and Tanja van der Lippe.