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By Elisabetta Ruspini, Angela Dale

ISBN-10: 1861343329

ISBN-13: 9781861343321

This identify explores the opportunity of longitudinal research as a robust device for appreciating the gender measurement of social swap. The authors use longitudinal facts to supply new insights into the altering dynamics of women's existence classes at the present time. members view the knowledge from a coverage standpoint and use comparative research from Britain, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and Japan to extend our figuring out of women's existence classes and platforms of inequality. teachers, scholars and researchers in sociology, gender reviews, social learn, public and social coverage may still locate this booklet a invaluable source.

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Panel design ‘True’ longitudinal surveys can be of two types: prospective and retrospective. The former gather information about events even as they are taking place, 31 The gender dimension of social change whereas the latter are based on historical accounts: subjects are asked to remember and reconstruct aspects of their life course. More precisely, prospective longitudinal studies, especially Household Panel Studies (HPS), follow individuals and families over time by periodically re-interviewing the same subjects and providing multiple observations on each individual/household in the sample.

J. (1992) ‘Household Panel Studies: Prospects and problems’,Working Papers of the European Scientific Network on Household Panel Studies, Paper 54, Colchester: University of Essex. H. H. Elder Jr (ed) Life course dynamics. Trajectories and transitions, 1968-1980, Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, pp 23-49. Evans, M. (ed) (1994) The woman question, London: Sage Publications. Giddens, A. (1990) The consequences of modernity, Cambridge: Polity Press. Giullari, S. (2000) ‘Sostegno o (in)dipendenza?

This is a wrong and dangerous assumption for two reasons: on the one hand, as we have seen, in most Western countries there are more and more economically independent single women as well as increasing numbers of women who are the breadwinners of their family (for example single mothers). In view of this rise in the female labour participation rate and the growth of female-headed households, it is evident that women’s treatment as economic dependants by social security systems contributes to women’s poverty (Lee, 1999).

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