Globalization, uncertainty and women 's careers : an international comparison / edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Heather Hofmeister.

List of contributors, viii -- Preface, xiv -- Foreword, xvi -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Globalization, uncertainty and women's mid-career life courses: a theoretical framework / Heather Hofmeister, Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Melinda Mills, 3 -- 2. Women's employment in times of globalization: a comparative Overview / Dirk Hofdcker, 32 -- Part II. Country-specific contributions on conservative welfare regimes -- 3. Women's employment in West Germany / Sandra Buchhoiz and Daniela Grunow, 61 -- 4. Changes in women's employment and occupational mobility in the Netherlands: 1995 to 2000 / Matthijs Kalmijn and Ruud Luijkx, 84 -- Part iii. Country-specific contributions on social-democratic welfare regimes -- 5. Globalization, deindustrialization and the labor market experiences of Swedish women, 1950 to 2000 / Tomas Korpi and Charlotta Stern, 115 -- 6. Danish women's unemployment, job mobility and non-employment, 1980s and 1990s: marked by globalization. / Daniela Grunow and Soren Leth-Sorensen, 142 -- Part IV. Country-specific contributions on post-socialist welfare regimes -- 7. Women's career mobility in Hungary / Erzsébet Bukodi and Peter Robert, 171 -- 8. Women's employment in Estonia / Jelena Helemae and Ellu Saar, 199 -- 9. Women and the labor market in the Czech Republic; transition from a socialist to a social-democratic regime? / Dana Hamplová, 224 -- 10. Women and the labor market in Poland: from socialism to capitalism / Ania Plomien, 247 -- Part V. Country-specific contributions on liberal welfare regimes v 11. Women's employment in Britain / Katrin Golsch, 275 -- 12. Women's employment transitions and mobility in the United States: 1968 to 1991 / Heather Hofmeister, 302 -- Part VI. Country-specific contributions on family-oriented welfare regimes -- 13. Labor force dynamics and occupational attainment across three cohorts of women in urban Mexico / Emilia A. Parrado, 329 -- 14. Mid-career women in contemporary Italy: economic and institutional changes / Maurizio Pisati and Antonio Schizzerotto, 352 -- 15. Hard choices: can Spanish women reconcile job and family? / Carles Simó Noguera, 376 -- Part VII. Conclusions -- 16. The impact of gender role attitudes on women's life courses / Detlev Liick, 405 -- 17. Women's careers in an era of uncertainty: conclusions from a 13-country international comparison / Heather Hofmeister and Hans-Peter Blossfeld, 433 -- Index, 451.