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Title:

Women and austerity : the economic crisis and the future for gender equality / edited by Maria Karamessini and Jill Rubery.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxi, 358 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--Employment--United States.
Women--Employment--Europe.
Sex discrimination against women--United States.
Sex discrimination against women--Europe.
United States--Social policy--21st century.
Europe--Social policy--21st century.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Other Authors:

Karamessini, Maria.
Rubery, Jill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: women's vulnerability to recession and austerity / Maria Karamessini -- From "women and recession" to "women and austerity" : a framework for analysis / Jill Rubery -- Challenging the balkanization of gender contracts / Jacqueline O'Reilly and Tiziana Nazio -- Women and men in the "great European recession" / Francesca Bettio and Alina Verashchagina -- Gender impacts of the "great recession" in the United States / Randy Albelda -- Iceland in crisis : gender equality and social equity / Thora Kristin Thorsd©đttir 7. Gender, Recession and Austerity in the UK / Jill Rubery and Anthony Rafferty -- The labour market impact of the economic crisis in Hungary through the lens of gender equality / M©Łria Frey -- Structural crisis and adjustment in Greece : social regression and the challenge to gender equality / Maria Karamessini -- Ireland in crisis 2008-2012 : women, austerity and inequality / Ursula Barry and Pauline Conroy -- Employment and austerity : changing welfare and gender regimes in Portugal / Virg©Ưnia Ferreira -- Women, gender equality and the economic crisis in Spain / Elvira Gonz©Łlez Gago and Marcelo Segales Kirzner -- Living through the crisis in Italy : the labour market experience of men and women / Alina Verashchagina and Marina Capparucci -- Policy in the time of crisis : employment policy and gender equality in Europe / Paola Villa and Mark Smith -- Gender, inequality and the crisis : towards more equitable development / Diane Perrons and Ania Plomien -- Economic crisis and austerity : challenges to gender equality / Maria Karamessini and Jill Rubery.

Series:

Routledge IAFFE advances in feminist economics ; 11

ISBN:

0415815371 (pbk.)
9780415815376 (pbk.)
0415815363 (hardback)
9780415815369 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)824722633

LCCN:

2013004286

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)