Titlebook: Women and Paid Work; Audrey Hunt (freelance social researcher) Book 1988 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 19

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,Women’s Working Lives: A Comparison of Women in the United States and Great Britain, rates have increased, and yet there are differences in employment policies, in legislation and in the economic structures of Britain and the USA. By comparing British and US women’s experiences we can provide some insight into the reasons why some of women’s labour market experiences and changes ha

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Women and Paid Work: Issues of Equality. An Overview, surveys carried out between 1965 and 1981. Between them these surveys cover the lifetime of women born between 1901 and the late 1960s but the authors for the most part concentrate on the post-war period.

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Women and Paid Work: Prospects for Equality,e is considerable variation in both the goals aimed for and the means perceived as appropriate to achieve them. However, it is indisputable that Mills’s ‘perfect equality’ is far from having been realised.

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The Intra-family Distribution of Paid Work, 1968-81,alls for a new Beveridge Report are to be taken seriously, then the issues raised by the changes in women’s employment profiles should be at the very centre of the current political debate. Indeed, Beveridge’s assumptions about women’s employment and the economic dependence of married women have been under scrutiny over the last few years.

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,Women’s Hourly Earnings: the Influence of Work Histories on Rates of Pay,rtance of men’s longer hours of work and their greater propensity to work overtime and shiftwork. Further, Joshi (1982) has emphasised a less direct influence, whereby the lower hourly earnings available to women encourage breaks from employment which in turn reduce a woman’s eventual pension rights.

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,The Effects of Caring for the Elderly and Infirm on Women’s Employment,t twenty years, including some official surveys (Harris, 1968 and 1971; Hunt, 1970 and 1978). The effect of current government policy will therefore be to place even heavier burdens on the shoulders of the families, in particular the women in the families, of the infirm and elderly.