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Gendered Welfare Regimes, Work–Family Patterns and Women’s Employment

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Cliometrics of the Family

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Abstract

The ways family members combine paid and unpaid work—work–family patterns—have evolved throughout history, in parallel with changes in gender relations and gender equality.

However, cross-country variations in work–family patterns are still marked.

This chapter analyses the evolution of employment patterns within the family after the Second World War from a gendered welfare regime perspective. Belonging to a given gendered welfare regime type has, in general, a strong explanative power in accounting for the design of work–family arrangements. Nevertheless, some countries are departing from what is expected, giving a more nuanced picture of the idea of a typical linear historical evolution, common to all industrialised countries, from a ‘male breadwinner family’ to a ‘dual full-time earner family’.

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    Anne Reimat

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    Claude Diebolt

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    Auke Rijpma , Sarah Carmichael , Selin Dilli  & Charlotte Störmer , ,  & 

Appendices

Appendix 1: Log Female Employment Against Log Children Aged Under 15

18 scatterplots with some plots having decreasing trends from the top left to the bottom right and some having an S-shape trend.

Appendix 2: Log Female Employment Against Log Women Having Completed Tertiary Level of Education

18 scatterplots with most of the graphs having decreasing trends from the top right to the bottom left.

Appendix 3: Log Female Employment Against Log Employment in Public and Care Services

18 scatterplots with most of the graphs having decreasing trends from the top right to the bottom left.

Appendix 4: Log Female Full-Time Employment Against Log Women Having Completed Secondary or Tertiary Levels of Education

18 scatterplots with most of the graphs having decreasing trends from the top right to the bottom left.

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Reimat, A. (2019). Gendered Welfare Regimes, Work–Family Patterns and Women’s Employment. In: Diebolt, C., Rijpma, A., Carmichael, S., Dilli, S., Störmer, C. (eds) Cliometrics of the Family. Studies in Economic History. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99480-2_12

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