Towards a new organisation of men's lives: emerging forms of work and opportunities for gender equality: work changes gender

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Title: Towards a new organisation of men's lives : emerging forms of work and opportunities for gender equality: work changes gender

Contributor: Abril, Paco [Contributor]; Gärtner, Marc [Contributor]; Halrynio, Sigtona [Contributor]; Holter, Øystein G. [Contributor]; Höyng, Stephan [Contributor]; Puchert, Ralf [Contributor]; Riesenfeld, Vera [Contributor]; Scambor, Christian [Contributor]; Scambor, Eli [Contributor]; Schwerma, Klaus [Contributor]

Corporation: European Commission, Directorate-General for Research

Published: Luxembourg: Publications Office, 2007

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 131 p.); ill

Language: English

DOI: 10.2777/54688

ISBN: 9789279080173

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Keywords: social sciences ; working conditions ; gender equality ; industrial sociology ; man ; comparative study ; Fifth framework programme ; FP5

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Footnote: Bibl.: p. 123-130

Description: This interdisciplinary project researched the implications of changing working conditions on male employees in Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Israel, Norway and Spain. Standard work in the sense of full-time and non-temporary employment with social insurance is decreasing, and is possibly in a long-term process of erosion. Eurostat and other statistics prove that the unemployment rates of men and women have converged in the last decades, and the number of men in temporary positions is nearing that of women. The number of men working part-time in the EU has doubled since 1988, climbing from 3.1 to 6.1 million. At the same time, men and women's time use and household share is becoming more similar. Thus, the traditional breadwinner model is on the way to being dismantled, which has deep-rooted consequences for gender relations and the self-image of men. The purpose of this investigation was to identify men's strategies that both aimed at dealing with these changes and were oriented toward quality of life and equality. In working life, it is not only women but also men not working a standard fulltime schedule who are confronted with obstacles when seeking higher positions and careers.

Access State: Open Access

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