WORK-FAMILY BALANCE, GENDER AND POLICY
Book ID/图书代码： 04289513B60208
English Summary/英文概要： `This book provides a brilliant synthesis of comparative research on work-family policies with particular relevance to the emerging policy agenda in the UK. Jane Lewis is a profound thinker and graceful writer who leavens her theoretical sophistication with comprehensive attention to practical details.’- Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US
`Jane Lewis is a brilliant conceptual innovator and gifted empirical analyst in the field of social policy. This book expertly illuminates the dramatically changing terrain of social policy with reference to employment, family and gender relations.’- Ann Orloff, Northwestern University, US
Combining paid work with caring for children has become more difficult for families as women’s working hours have increased. Over the past decade the issue of work-family balance has reached a more prominent place on the policy agenda of many Western European countries. However the preoccupations of governments have been largely instrumental, focusing particularly on the goal of increasing female employment rates in order to achieve greater competitiveness and economic growth, and also in many countries on raising fertility rates and promoting children’s early learning.
This important book looks at the three main components of work-family policy packages - childcare services, flexible working patterns and entitlements to leave from work in order to care - across EU15 Member States, with comparative reference to the US. It also provides an in-depth examination of developments in the UK. Variations in national priorities, policy instruments, established policy orientations and the context for policy making in terms of employment patterns, fertility behavior and attitudes towards work and care are highlighted.
Gender inequalities in the division of paid and unpaid work underpin the whole issue of work-family balance. But what constitutes gender equality in this crucial policy field? Jane Lewis argues that in spite of growing political emphasis on the importance of `choice’, a `real’ choice to engage in either or both the socially necessary activities of paid and unpaid work has remained elusive.
Work-Family Balance, Gender and Policy is essential reading for students and scholars who wish to understand the complex challenges facing families and family policy and the opportunities for the future.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “这本书提供了一个有用的工作与家庭合成政策尤其是在英国新出现的政策议程的相关比较研究。Jane Lewis是一个影响了深刻的思想家和优美的作家，用全面关注的实际细节来潜移默化地影响复杂性理论。”——Nancy Folbre，美国马萨诸塞州阿莫斯特大学
“Jane Lewis是一个聪明的概念性创新者和在社会政策领域有天赋的实证分析师。这本书巧妙地通过参照就业、家庭和性别关系来阐明社会政策急剧变化的形势”Ann Orloff，美国西北大学
与照顾孩子相结合的有偿工作随着女性工作时间的增加而变得对于家庭来说更困难了。在过去的十年中工作-家庭平衡问题已经早许多西欧国家的政策议程中达到了一个更加突出的位置。然而政府的当务之急在很大程度上是很有帮助的，尤其在于注重提高女性就业率为的是实现更大的竞争力和经济增长，以及很多国家注重于提高女性生育率和促进儿童的早期学习。
这本重要的书着眼于工作与家庭一揽子政策的三个主要组成部分——儿童保育服务、灵活的工作方式和请假的权利和英国相比较为的是照顾整个欧盟15国。在国家优先事项、政策工作和已建立的政策方向和在就业模式这方面的环境下所作出的政策的变更，更是突出了生育行为和对待工作和护理方面的态度。
性别不平等在有偿与无偿工作的区别中支撑着整? Jane Lewis 认为尽管不断强调“选择”的重要性，一个“真正的”选择从参与有偿与无偿工作的社会必要性活动中二者选其一一直是难以定义的。
《从性别与政策论工作与家庭平衡》是学生和学者必不可少的读物，让他们了解如何面对家庭和家庭政策的复杂挑战和对未来机遇。（LNL）
Awards/获奖情况：“基于多重比较和英国方面消息透露，这本新书由最知名的欧洲社会科学家之一揭开的多个维度和参与平衡家庭和有偿工作需求的关系。Jane Lewis 用文件证明并坚持观点甚至增加跨越国家的差异。尽管存在这些，工作与家庭和解政策相比男女之间重新分配的照顾更关心的是让妇女将有偿和家庭照顾相结合。这本重要的书应要求那些对社会政策和福利国家的分析感兴趣的人必读。”——Chiara Saraceno,柏林社会科学研究中心（ WZB ），德国和意大利都灵大学，意大利。
“这本书提供了一个有效的综合比较研究对工作与家庭的政策，特别是在英国新出现的政策议程的相关性。Jane Lewis是一个深刻的思想家和优美的作家，用全面关注的实际细节来潜移默化地影响复杂性理论。”——Nancy Folbre，美国马萨诸塞州阿莫斯特大学
“Jane Lewis是一个聪明的概念性创新者和在社会政策领域有天赋的实证分析师。这本书巧妙地通过参照就业、家庭和性别关系来阐明社会政策急剧变化的形势”Ann Orloff，美国西北大学
’Based on multiple comparative as well as UK sources, this new book by one of the most well known European social scientists unravels the multiple dimensions and relationships involved in balancing family and paid work demands. Jane Lewis documents persisting, and even increasing cross country differences. Notwithstanding these, work-family reconciliation policies are more concerned with allowing women to combine paid work and family care than with redistributing care between men and women. This important book should be required reading for everyone interested in social policy and welfare state analysis.’ - Chiara Saraceno, Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), Germany and University of Turin, Italy ’This book provides a brilliant synthesis of comparative research on work-family policies with particular relevance to the emerging policy agenda in the UK. Jane Lewis is a profound thinker and graceful writer who leavens her theoretical sophistication with comprehensive attention to practical details.’ - Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts, Amhurst, US ’Jane Lewis is a brilliant conceptual innovator and gifted empirical analyst in the field of social policy. This book expertly illuminates the dramatically changing terrain of social policy with reference to employment, family and gender relations.’ - --Ann Orloff, Northwestern University, US
About the Author/作者介绍： Jane Lewis 英国伦敦经济学院社会政策经济学教授Jane Lewis, Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK
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