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- Book-Manuscript Conference: Gendering the Varieties of Capitalism
- December 11, 2008
- This is closed to the public.
- Gendering the Varieties of Capitalism by Margarita Estévez-Abe explains crossnational differences in female employment patterns in advanced industrial societies—i.e., Western European countries, Japan, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. While most political scientists focus on the degree of “women-friendliness” of social policies to predict cross-national variations in female employment rates, Gendering the Varieties of Capitalism focuses on labor market institutions as independent variables. The book argues that vocational training systems, employment protection regulation, and wage bargaining systems possess previously overlooked consequences for women. Many scholars have praised countries with strong traditions of vocational training, employment protection, and collective wage bargaining for minimizing inequality. What this book demonstrates, however, is that these same institutions have produced highly gendered consequences in the labor market.
- Field of Interest: Comparative Politics
- Conference Chair
- Estévez-Abe, Margarita
- Former Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate.
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