Working Parents, Family and Gender in Spain from an European Comparative Perspective

2012 ◽  
pp. 177-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Almudena Moreno Mínguez
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
And Gender

Normative Distortions in Labour Law

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-511
Author(s):  
Jenny Julén Votinius
Keyword(s):  
Market Efficiency ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Legal Argumentation ◽  
Parental Rights ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
And Gender

This article identifies, conceptualizes and analyses a normative conflict, embedded in social practises and conceptions on gender in the institutional framework of the market, which underlies labour law regulation as well as legal argumentation regarding working parents. The article evinces and models the basic structure of vital mechanisms operative in weakening parental rights in working life and labour law. The model is fleshed out inductively, using examples from Swedish national law, where the protection of parental rights is fairly strongly formulated, but where, in the same time, the provisions concerning employees’ parenthood have a relatively weak position in the living law. The weakness is explained as a normative incoherence, as expressed in labour law adjudication. In their application, legal provisions to support parental caring and gender equality thus can be forced to give way to encroaching norms based on the value of market efficiency.

Prophecy and Gender

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martti Nissinen
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Specific

This chapter demonstrates that prophecy was a gendered phenomenon, but the prophetic role was not generally gender-specific, which is remarkable in the patriarchal cultures within which prophecy functioned. The chapter approaches the issue of gender and prophetic divination from a comparative perspective. First, a taxonomy of gender of the prophets and deities in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean is presented, followed by a discussion on the agency of the prophets from the gender point of view. The chapter concludes by analyzing the gendered representations of deities and their alleged agency, that of the goddess Ištar in particular.

European gender cultures

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-122
Author(s):  
Vera Lomazzi ◽  
Isabella Crespi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Family Balance ◽  
Gender Regimes ◽  
Work Family Balance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Positive Effect

Wondering whethergender mainstreaming really supports the shift to a more gender-egalitarian Europe,this chapter explores the intertwined relation between individual gender role attitudes, gender regimes,and gender cultures in Europe. It investigates how structural aspects, which determine the opportunities available for men and women to achieve their goals, as well as cultural features, which establish socially constructed, predominant family models and legitimised gender roles, contribute to explaining individuals’ beliefs in gender equality. The chapter reports empirical evidence of the positive effect of work-family balance policies, which enshrines the gender mainstreaming principles, on the promotion of gender egalitarian beliefs. Thesepolicies and workplace practices allow working parents to combine their professional and personal responsibilities, directly affecting their opportunity structures. Because of such realistic opportunities, people tend to express more egalitarian views. At the same time, the implementation of work-family balance policies transmits a certain idea of a lifestyle model and family pattern, legitimising them through structural elements that contribute to changing current gender regimes.

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