Publisher's Synopsis
A comparative study of the transformation of gender relations and women?s employment in Sweden, Germany and the United States during the post-war period. Drawing upon a range of disciplines including economics, politics and sociology the author throws light on new aspects of how political and social actors, labour markets and the welfare states have shaped gender relations in the three countries. Central to the analysis is the question why gender relations differ across countries in Europe and North America and how these differences can be explained. - - Key issues and debates on women?s political struggles and employment are covered, as the book focuses on the regulation of gender relations and how the behaviour of men and women has been adjusted to certain patterns of gender relations ? for example the male breadwinner role. The author argues that political and social struggles give rise to particular forms of regulation, which are the main sources of divergence in patterns of gender relations across countries. Hence, each country adopts it own variant of the most dominant patterns of gender relations.
