Panel SVAR model of women's employment, fertility, and economic growth: A comparative study of East Asian and EU countries

This article uses an extant collection of television news inserts and other television ephemera to examine women's employment at Midlands ATV. Focusing on the years between the first Midlands News broadcasts in 1956 until major contract changes across the ITV network in 1968, it examines the jobs women did during this formative period and their chances for promotion. In particular it suggests that contemporary ideas of glamour and their influence in screen culture maintained a significant influence in shaping women's employment. This connection between glamorous television aesthetics and female employees as the embodiment of glamour, especially on screen, did leave women vulnerable to redundancy as ‘frivolity’ in television was increasingly criticised in the mid-1960s. However, this article argues that the precarious status of women in the industry should not undermine historical appreciation of the value of their work in the establishing of television in Britain. Setting this study of Midlands ATV within the growing number of studies into women's employment in television, there are certain points of comparison with women's experience at the BBC and in networked ITV current affairs programmes. However, while the historical contours of television production are broadly comparable, there are clear distinctions, such as the employment of a female newscaster, Pat Cox, between 1956 and 1965. Such distinctions also suggest that regional news teams were experimenting with the development of a vernacular television news style that requires further study.

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The Politics of Low Fertility: Global Markets, Women's Employment, and Birth Rates in Four Industrialized Democracies

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1154152 ◽

2002 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Frances McCall Rosenbluth ◽

Matthew Light ◽

Claudia Schrag

Keyword(s):

Low Fertility ◽

Global Markets ◽

Women's Employment ◽

Women’S Employment ◽

Birth Rates ◽

Industrialized Democracies

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The Developmental Trading State

10.1093/oso/9780198777939.003.0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Alex J. Bellamy

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

East Asia ◽

National Economy ◽

East Asian ◽

The State ◽

State Model ◽

Principal Function ◽

Mass Violence ◽

The Way

This chapter demonstrates that the downwards pressure that state consolidation placed on mass violence was amplified by the type of state that emerged. Across East Asia, governments came to define themselves as “developmental” or “trading” states whose principal purpose was to grow the national economy and thereby improve the economic wellbeing of their citizens. Governments with different ideologies came to embrace economic growth and growing the prosperity of their populations as the principal function of the state and its core source of legitimacy. Despite some significant glitches along the way the adoption of the developmental trading state model has proven successful. Not only have East Asian governments succeeded in lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, the practices and policy orientations dictated by this model helped shift governments and societies away from belligerent practices towards postures that prioritized peace and stability. This reinforced the trend towards greater peacefulness.

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Uptake of biosimilar trastuzumab in Denmark compared with other European countries: a comparative study and discussion of factors influencing implementation and uptake of biosimilars

European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology ◽

10.1007/s00228-021-03155-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Samuel Azuz ◽

Max Newton ◽

Dorthe Bartels ◽

Birgitte Klindt Poulsen

Keyword(s):

Comparative Study ◽

Market Share ◽

European Countries ◽

Sales Volume ◽

Eu Countries ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

European Data ◽

Similar Strategy ◽

Rapid Dissemination

Abstract Purpose The aim of this study was to describe the implementation and uptake of biosimilar trastuzumab in Denmark compared with other European countries. Methods European data for usage of trastuzumab was supplied by IQVIA™, using the MIDAS® dataset. A comparison was performed based on market share estimated in sales volume. A separate comparison was undertaken between countries with a full two-fold switch between different biosimilars. Data was collected spanning the time from first registered sales of biosimilar trastuzumab until the 1st quarter of 2020. Results Denmark had the fastest and most thorough uptake of biosimilar trastuzumab compared with other EU countries. After 3 months, the market share of biosimilar trastuzumab had increased to 90% while the second fastest country had a 50% market share after 3 months. Only two other countries had undergone a full second switch between biosimilars, Hungary and Norway. All of the three countries made near complete switches between biosimilars while only Denmark had reduced the use of biooriginator below 10%. Conclusion The implementation of biosimilar trastuzumab in Denmark was rapid and achieved high overall uptake compared with other EU countries. The switch from one biosimilar to another was also achieved quickly and thoroughly. We believe that the rapid dissemination of information and involvement of all stakeholders — administrators, pharmacies, prescribers, nurses, and patients — constitute the backbone of the Danish success. A similar strategy is recommend for biosimilar implementation in other countries.

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Sexual Division in Parenting: A Normative Context That Hinders Co-Responsibility

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x211038073 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0192513X2110380

Author(s):

José María García-de-Diego ◽

Livia García-Faroldi

Keyword(s):

Child Rearing ◽

Women's Employment ◽

Sociological Research ◽

Women’S Employment ◽

Sexual Division ◽

Political Implications ◽

The Family ◽

Social Images ◽

Employment Rates ◽

Using Data

Recent decades have seen an increase in women’s employment rates and an expansion of egalitarian values. Previous studies document the so-called “motherhood penalty,” which makes women’s employment more difficult. Demands for greater shared child-rearing between parents are hindered by a normative climate that supports differentiated gender roles in the family. Using data from the Center for Sociological Research [Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas] (2018), this study shows that the Spanish population perceives that differentiated social images of motherhood and fatherhood still persist. The “sexual division in parenting” index is proposed and the profile of the individuals who most perceive this sexual division is analyzed. The results show that women and younger people are the most aware of this social normativity that unequally distributes child care, making co-responsibility difficult. The political implications of these results are discussed.

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