Review article
Women's Participation at the Labor Market, Patterns of Work Career and the Role of the State
Davor TOPOLČIĆ
; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
Abstract
We discuss the relationship between industrialization
and the establishment of the male breadwinner model
family, as well as the one which has replaced it in most
industrial countries of the West – the two breadwinners
model family. In the second part of the article we point
out the importance of the institutional context and,
especially of different aspects of the relation state-family.
Those differences can influence women’s decision to
participate at the labor market and their pattern of work
career, as well as make it more easier or difficult to
reconcile work and family duties, especially if the couple
or lone-parent have underage children. We discuss the
role of the state in the space of two conceptual frameworks:
Esping-Andersen’s typology of the welfare state and
Mósesdóttir's typology of the state regimes of gender
relations.
Keywords
male breadwinner model; women’s participation at the labor market; welfare state
Hrčak ID:
31148
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2008.
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