Current debates about changing patterns of work tend to be structured around Atkinson's model of the flexible firm, which is similar to Loveridge's model of firm-specific labour markets. Two spring 1987 national surveys, of workers and of employers, are analysed to show that the balance between...

Society is man-made ?? but also woman-made. In the long term, social institutions are the product of people?'s choices, rather than the cause of them. Two social revolutions in the last three decades have created even greater scope for genuine and free choices and wider opportunities for women....

This paper comments on the lead symposium article, “Reaching the Top?–On Gender Balance in the Economics Profession,†by Christina Jonung and Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg. Jonung and Ståhlberg demonstrate that the economics profession recruits few women even in (or especially in)...

Catherine Hakim argues that social and family policy must now be gender-neutral, but should cater for diversity in lifestyle preferences. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2008 ippr.

Preference theory is a new approach to explaining current and future patterns of employment and fertility among women in modern societies. Although economists usually claim that preferences cannot be measured, methods for identifying women's and men's lifestyle preferences were developed and...

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Cases -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Explaining Women's Subordination -- Key issues in women's employment -- Theoretical perspectives -- Patriarchy and male...