This article compares recent social policy reforms in respect of lone‐parent families in three
different national contexts: France, the Netherlands and the UK. In all three countries there is …

The identity transformation affecting both men and women and structural changes in the
family and in the labour market in the last few decades have led to a reflection on the role of …

The aim of this paper is to analyse, differentiated by gender, the effects that high
geographical job mobility has on parenthood decisions. In particular, in a first part we will …

Sociology is a field that examines the social construction of various aspects of human life,
including gender and sexuality, and explores how these are produced and perceived by …

This article discusses the practical basis of judgements about social justice, focusing on the
quality of work-life balance in contemporary labour markets. After describing the main …

Different aspects of decisions regarding parenthood are analysed. From an institutional
perspective, reconciliation policies and features of the female labour market are studied, as …

The discussion about women's situation in old age has often been restricted to their
employment biographies. For women, however, family factors play a large role in connection …

The past two decades in Western European societies have been marked by a decline in
fertility rates together with an increase in women's work-force participation. This has given …

Noras Jansones–Ratinikas promocijas darbs pedagoģijā izstrādāts Latvijas Universitātes
Pedagoģijas, psiholoģijas un mākslas fakultātes pedagoģijas nodaļā profesores Zandas …

Since the early 1990s the demand for maternity and parental leave, as well as for external
child care facilities, has grown steadily in all European countries. Thus the provision of …