Family, Women, and Employment in Central-Eastern Europe

Subjects:

• Multicultural Studies » Slavic Studies
• Women's Studies » Women's Studies (General)
• Women's Studies » Women in Business & Labor

Reviews:

• This collection of essays is one of the first to attempt a systematic and statistically grounded examination of the situation of women and the family in the postsocialist states of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the former German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and former Yugoslavia.
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• ...a fine and intelligent, skillfully structured volume. ...[this] book makes for useful reading for all those who are interested in the current situation of Central-Eastern European countries.
  —International Review of Sociology
• Despite the different points of view resulted from the contributors' different life expereinces, and dissimilar professional training, it is to the merit of Barbara Lobodzinsk to supply the readers with a fine and intelligent, skillfully structured volume. Her initial overview, together with her introductory notes to each national case-study, and her concluding remarks, are most helpful in understanding the factors influencing the curent changes inside and outside the family. To sum up. her book makes for useful reading for all those who are interested in the current situation of Central-Eastern European countries.
  —International Review of Sociology

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Overview
• The Family and Working Women during and after Socialist Industrialization and Ideology by Barbara /Lobodzi'nska
• Bulgaria
• Women in Bulgaria by Bistra Anachkova
• Czech Republic and Slovakia
• Women and Family--the Czech Version of Development and Chances for Improvement by Marie 'Cermakova
• Women's Equality, Work, and Family in the Czech Republic by Alena Heitlinger
• Germany (The Former German Democratic Republic)
• East German Women--Chief Losers in German Unification by Hanna Behrend
• The Family in the German Democratic Republic from a Western Point of View by Barbara Ketelhut
• Hungary
• The Position of Hungarian Women in the Process of Regime Change by Katalin Koncz
• Lithuania
• Women and Family in Lithuania by Irena Juozeliuniene and Vida Kanopiene
• Poland
• The Impact of Socioeconomic Restructuring on Polish Women by Anna M. Zajicek and Toni M. Calasanti
• Women and Families in Poland: Pressing Problems and Possible Solutions by Jill M. Bystydzienski
• Romania
• Participation of Women in the Workforce: The Case of Romania by Doina Pasca Harsanyi
• Former Yugoslavia
• Re-domestication of Women and Democratization in Postsocialist Slovenia by Maca Jogan
• Women and Work in the Former Yugoslavia and Their Present Situation by Andjelka Milic
• Women, Work, and Family in Former Yugoslavia by Joy B. Reeves
• Conclusion
• Equal Opportunities: Obstacles and Remedies by Barbara /Lobodzi'nska
• Appendix
• References
• Index