Doing Women's Studies: Employment Opportunities, Personal Impacts and Social Consequences

Contents......Page 6
Tables and figure......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Employment opportunities for women in Europe......Page 26
Theoretical perspectives on women’s employment in Europe......Page 27
Main features of women’s employment in Europe......Page 34
Potentialimpact of Women’s Studies training on equality of opportunity inemployment in the EU......Page 70
Conclusions......Page 74
Processes of institutionalization of equal opportunities......Page 77
(Un)equal opportunities in practice: the views of Women’s Studiesstudents......Page 82
Equal opportunities and employment......Page 88
Equalopportunities and Women’s Studies: Women’s Studies graduatesas agents of social change......Page 92
Conclusions......Page 99
The institutionalization process of Women’s Studies in Europe......Page 102
Some consequences of the uneven development of the institutionalizationof Women’s Studies across Europe......Page 108
Some conclusions– future agendas......Page 121
The professionalization of Women’s Studies students in Europe:expectations and experiences......Page 124
Research questions and methodology......Page 126
Expectations andexperiences of Women’s Studies training......Page 128
Employmentsectors for Women’s Studies......Page 130
Women’s Studies trainingas a professionalization process......Page 132
Women’s Studies offersprofessionalization of equal opportunities......Page 134
Gender expertiseis of use in civil society......Page 137
Women’s Studies students professionalize themselves in the labour market......Page 138
The professionalism ofWomen’s Studies graduates......Page 139
Gender expertise......Page 141
Innovative workinglife practices......Page 142
Discourses of work and career......Page 145
Conclusion......Page 151
Accessing Women’s Studies training......Page 154
The impact ofWomen’s Studies on its students’ personal lives......Page 160
Women’s Studies as an identity project......Page 161
How Women’s Studies achievesits impact......Page 164
Cultural contexts and Women’s Studies......Page 166
Socio-domestic lifestyles......Page 168
Relationships within thefamily......Page 169
Relationships with children......Page 172
Relationshipswith partners and domestic arrangements......Page 174
Femalefriendship networks......Page 177
Overall quality of life......Page 178
Educational migration and gender: Women’s Studies students’educational mobility in Europe......Page 181
Student mobility in Women’s Studies – the numbers......Page 183
‘Receiving’ and ‘sending’: divisions by country......Page 184
Erasmusstudent mobility in general and gender equality......Page 188
Courses and credits......Page 191
Information and funding......Page 192
Motives for and impediments to studying abroad......Page 194
The experience of studying abroad......Page 198
The impact of study abroad on educational migrants......Page 199
Educational migration and European citizenship – some conclusions......Page 204
Race, ethnicity, migration and Europe......Page 208
Answering thequestion about ethnic background......Page 213
Colour matters......Page 215
Nationality......Page 216
The matter of regions......Page 217
Religion andethnic background......Page 218
Other ways of seeing ethnic background......Page 220
Conclusions......Page 221
Comparative research in Europe......Page 226
Research questions and design......Page 227
Multidisciplinarity......Page 231
Frameworks for communication......Page 232
Concepts and intellectual mapping......Page 235
Quantitative and qualitative researchmethods......Page 238
Comparability and non-harmonized data......Page 240
Comparability and harmonized data......Page 242
Standardization......Page 243
Conclusions......Page 245
Notes on contributors......Page 249
References......Page 252
Index......Page 264