| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 224 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgement -- Notes on contributors -- Funding -- Introduction: aspirations and uncertainties : childbearing choices and work-life realities in Europe / Livia Sz. Oláh and Susanne Fahlén -- Work and childbearing intentions in a capability perspective : young adult women in sweden / Susanne Fahlén and Livia Sz. Oláh -- Employment instability and childbearing plans in a child-oriented country : evidence from France / Ariane Pailhé and Anne Solaz -- The interplay of fertility intentions, female employment and work-life balance policies in contemporary Poland : can gender equity, preference, and social capital theories provide a better insight? / Ewa Frátczak and Aneta Ptak-Chmielewska -- Unattainable desires? : childbearing capabilities in early 21st century Hungary / Judit Takács -- Acknowledgement |
| Summary |
This volume addresses the tensions between work and welfare with respect to fertility. Focusing on childbearing choices (intentions, desires) as influential predictors of future fertility, the contributors examine the importance of labour force attachment on young women's fertility plans in the context of increased labour market flexibility and differences in work-life balance policies across Europe in the early 21st century. Both high- and low-fertility societies of different welfare regimes are studied, illuminating processes of uncertainty and risk related to insecure labour force attachment and the incoherence effect in terms of women's and men's equal access to education and employment but unequal share of domestic responsibilities, constraining fertility. The synthesis of the findings shows how childbearing choices in relation to uncertainty, risk and incoherence offer a lens for understanding the capabilities of families to have and care for children in contemporary Europe. This volume contributes to the conceptual development of further research on the complex relationship between fertility, paid work and work-life balance policies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Family planning -- Europe
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Women -- Employment -- Europe
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Women -- Europe -- Social conditions
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Sex role -- Europe
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Welfare & benefit systems -- Europe.
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Social issues & processes -- Europe.
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Gender studies: women -- Europe.
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Sociology: family & relationships -- Europe.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Society.
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Family planning
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Sex role
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Women -- Employment
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Women -- Social conditions
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Welfare & benefit systems -- Europe.
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Social & ethical issues -- Europe.
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Gender studies: women & girls -- Europe.
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Sociology: family & relationships -- Europe.
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Society.
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oláh, Livia Sz, editor
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Frątczak, Ewa, editor
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| ISBN |
9781137318541 |
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1137318546 |
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