Whose Keeper? is a profound and creative treatise on modernity and its challenge to social
science. Alan Wolfe argues that modern liberal democracies, such as the United States and …

Research on the welfare state has been particularly concerned with variations in inequality
between societies. These studies tend to view the family as a unit of shared interests where …

This incisive work provides a comparative political analysis of the women's movement in
England, the United States, and Sweden from the 1960s to the present. Based on extensive …

Det moderna förälderns lott är att ständigt reflektera över sig själv. Värderingar hemma och
på jobbet olika, kraven från båda håll är alltid stora och kvinna och man förväntas leva …

In 1980, Sweden made a'speed premium'on childbearing statutory by letting parents retain
the parental leave benefits paid after the birth of one child until after the next birth if it arnved …

This note describes the increase in Sweden's period total fertility rate (TFR) in recent years.
The TFR has now reached the replacement level despite Swedish women's record-high …

This paper analyzes the role of public policy for Sweden's combination of high female labour
force participation and high levels of fertility in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We present …

Part-time work is a particularly apposite issue for cross-national comparison as it highlights
many of the controversies in comparative research, such as whether or not there are …

To what extent has the traditional male provider model shifted towards a model of equal
economic partnership in the Scandinavian welfare states, and how can current social …

Sweden--where 86 percent of mothers of preschool children are in the labor force--is an
ideal place to examine new models for the successful combining of working and parenting …