Women and Work

<p>This title was first published in 2000: The 1990s have been heralded as the 'age of women' based on the facts that globally more women are benefiting from formal education and are in paid employment in greater numbers than ever. As such the possibility that an age of post-feminism has been reached in which battles for women’s basic rights have largely been won is implied. This book based on research across academic disciplines challenges such claims. Using women and work as the basis analysis the authors consider whether such things as flexible working equal opportunities initiatives and even contemporary conceptions of citizenship are universally beneficial to women. The book presents research ranging from issues of immigrant sex-workers in Japan to the implementation of EU equality policies and raises the ironic question that as the global economy increasingly depends on women could a growing but uneasy alliance be developing between capitalism and feminism?</p>