Books reviewed: Richard Hyman, Understanding European Trade Unionism Kate Purcell (ed.), Changing Boundaries in Employment Jack Eaton, Globalization and Human Resource Management in the Airline Industry George Tsogas, Labor Regulation in a Global Economy

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....

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...

In the mid-1990s the Census Office released for the first time 1% and 2% Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) from the 1991 British Census. This pathbreaking study presents the results of the first analysis of labour market data from the new SARs, drawing comparisons with research results for...

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)...