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Facts and Fairy Tales about Female Labor, Family, and Fertility: A Seven-country Comparison, 1850-1990

Categorie	Algemeen Geschiedenis
Boeknummer	#381151-UC14
Titel	Facts and Fairy Tales about Female Labor, Family, and Fertility: A Seven-country Comparison, 1850-1990
Auteur	Pott-Buter, Hettie
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij	Amsterdam University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1993
ISBN10	9053560459
ISBN13	9789053560457
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original pictorial boards, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Nobody really understands Dutch women. They seem lively, well-educated and liberated. And yet apparently their participation in the labor market has always been far less than that of women in surrounding and economically comparable countries. Why? This book offers a wide-ranging and searching inquiry into the issue, relating data and conditions in the Netherlands to those in six other western European countries: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It probes attitudes to the family and motherhood and considers demographic trends and household composition throughout the period. It looks at women's education, their distribution throughout trade and industry, child care provision, and the disincentives and barriers to employment women have faced in the past and ma... (Lees verder)y still have today. The writer uses the facts to sift out valid from invalid (theoretical) explanations and relegates a number of them to the realm of the fairy tale. "
Pagina's	370
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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