This book brings together the latest European and North American research on a series of key topics in the field of women's employment. Drawing on published and easily accessible statistics, it sets the topics in the appropriate policy contexts and systematically appraises them from the viewpoint of the challenges for the management of human resources. The book explores: occupational segregation the pay gap work-life balance part-time working women, work and pensions women in professional occupations equality and diversity management women and trade unions. This is a highly useful book suitable for a wide range of courses including business studies, sociology, social policy and gender studies.

This book brings together the latest European and North American research on a series of key topics in the field of women's employment. Drawing on published and easily accessible statistics, it sets the topics in the appropriate policy contexts and systematically appraises them from the viewpoint of the challenges for the management of human resources. The book explores: occupational segregation the pay gap work-life balance part-time working women, work and pensions women in professional occupations equality and diversity management women and trade unions. This is a highly useful book suitable for a wide range of courses including business studies, sociology, social policy and gender studies.

Contemporary welfare provision poses serious challenges for social policy. Large and rapid changes are said to be taking place in the way we live, work and relate to each other, characterized by anxiety and citizenship are evolving in the context of this "risk society" and the implications for the development of social policy at both the macro and micro level. This collection of papers by leading analysts addresses key questions related to welfare, citizenship and risk including: the nature of insecurity and social protection; the balance between inequality and egalitarianism; the relationship between governments and citizens; the parameters of citizenship; and the impact of risk assessment and risk management. "Risk and Citizenship" offers a thought-provoking reading for student, practitioner or policy-maker. It provides: a review of current debates about risk, citizenship and welfare; an in-depth analysis of specific policy initiatives in social security and community care; and a new typology of welfare citizenship.

Contents:
1. Risk, Citizenship and Welfare: Introduction, Rosalind Edwards and Judith Glover 2. Social Insecurity and Social Protection, Paul Spicker 3. Transparent and Messy Contracts - How Do They Serve Social Security?, Zsuzsa Ferge 4. Live and Let Love? Reflections on the Unfinished Sexual Revolution of our Times, Jeffery Weeks 5. Widening the Scope of Social Policy: Families, Financial Services and the Impact of Technology, Jan Pahl 6. Complex Inequalities - Redistribution, Class and Gender, Peter Taylor-Gooby 7. 'Work for Those Who Can, Security for Those Who Cannot': A Third Way in Social Security Reform or Fractured Social Citizenship, Ruth Lister 8. Managing the Risk of Unemployment: Is Welfare Restructuring Undermining Support for Social Security? David Abbott and Deborah Quilgars 9. Managing the Body: Competing Approaches to Risk Assessment in Community Care, Kathryn Ellis and Ann Davis 10. Social Insecurity and the Informal Economy: Survival Strategies on a South London Estate, David Smith and John Macnicol 11. Social Capital and Waves of Innovation in the Risk Society, Barbara Jones and Bob Miller