Women's Work in Britain and France: Practice, Theory and Policy

by Abigail Gregory and Jan Windebank

Women's Work in Britain and France is a ground-breaking retheorization of what constitutes 'progress' in gender relations. The book shows that French women, although having more full-time and continuous careers and greater social policy support, retain as great a responsibility for unpaid domestic and caring work as their British counterparts. It replaces the conventional focus upon encouraging women's increased insertion into employment as the principal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333683072
• ISBN13: 9780333683071
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"