Contents

pp iii-iii

List of tables and figures

pp iv-vii

Notes on contributors

pp viii-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-x

Glossary

pp xi-xiv

Part I - Introduction

pp 1-2

one - Introduction

pp 3-10

two - Women and social change

pp 11-26

three - Survey designs for longitudinal research

pp 27-52

Part II - The issues

pp 53-54

four - The role of education on postponement of maternity in Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden

pp 55-80

five - The financial consequences of relationship dissolution for women in Western Europe

pp 81-110

six - Women’s incomes over a synthetic lifetime

pp 111-132

seven - Fixed-term contracts and unemployment at the beginning of the employment career in Germany: does gender matter?

pp 133-158

eight - Women and self-employment: the case of television production workers in Britain

pp 159-188

nine - Gender wage differentials in Britain and Japan

pp 189-228

ten - Longitudinal analysis and the constitution of the concept of gender

pp 229-258

Part III - Data sources

pp 259-260

eleven - Concluding comments

pp 261-268

Appendix - Description and characteristics of longitudinal data sets used in the book

pp 269-282

Index

pp 283-294