Assessing equal opportunities in the European Union

Plantenga, Janneke; Hansen, Johan

doi:10.1111/j.1564-913x.1999.tb00393.x

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“…In this study, the participating countries' equity rights and sexual harassment laws differ greatly. Timmermann (2005) referring to a comparative study on gender equality work in the EU, conducted by Plantenga and Hansen (2001), pointed the fact that Greece was one of the countries with the lowest scores. The long standing gender equality work in Norway outside sport and to a certain degree in sport, may therefore contribute to the fact that Norwegian students had experienced less sexual harassment than students in the two other countries.…”

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Sexual harassment in sport toward females in three European countries

Fasting

Chroni

Hervik³

et al. 2010

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This file was dowloaded from the institutional repository Brage NIH -brage.bibsys.no/nih Fasting, K., Chroni, S., Hervik, S. E., Knorre, N. (2011) [1994][1995][1996][1997][1998][1999][2000][2001][2002][2003] 2003). In spite of the fact that research on sexual harassment has taken place since the 1970's, it is still in many European countries an under-researched area, which is also the case for research on sexual harassment in the sport domain.This article presents some data from a larger cross-cultural research project that took place in three European countries which differed in relation to the gender order, gender equality laws, educational system, way sport is organized and managed, as well as in relation to antisexual harassment laws that are in effect. greater labor force participation and income parity than American women. One would therefore expect differences in the prevalence of sexual harassment among sporting women in various countries due to differences in the gender order and equal rights legislations, as well as in relation to whether sexual harassment is prohibited by law either in society at large or by sport specific laws.

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Sexual harassment in sport toward females in three European countries

Fasting

Chroni

Hervik³

et al. 2010

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…In the United States, Greece, Spain, and Portugal, most women work full-time (Rosenfeld & Birkelund 1995, Fagan & Rubery 1996, Blossfeld & Hakim 1997, Hakim 1997, Plantenga & Hansen 1999. In Eastern Europe, part-time work simply did not exist before the political turnover.…”

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Comparative Research on Women's Employment

2002

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Women's employment has been widely studied in both Western countries and Eastern Europe. In this article, the most frequently used measurements and descriptions of women's paid work are given, namely, participation rate, number of hours worked, gender segregation, and the gender gap in earnings. Next, three approaches used to study women's employment are discussed: 1. the macro-level approach, which gives a thorough understanding of the influence of the institutional context on women's work; 2. the micro-level approach, which compares individual-level results in a number of countries; and 3. the macro-micro approach, in which the relative importance is shown of institutional and individual level factors. Finally, a review is given of the hypotheses and outcomes of both the institutional level, with welfare regime and family policy playing an important role, and the individual level, which shows that being a mother has an important effect on women's employment in the different countries studied.

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“…Smith and Williams, 2007), work-family reconciliation (e.g. Gornick et al, 1997;Plantenga and Hansen, 1999;Gornick and Meyers, 2003;Lambert, 2008;Ray et al, 2010), child-related benefit programmes (e.g. Mandel and Semyonov, 2005;Bradshaw et al, 2006), and family poverty (Misra et al, 2007).…”

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“…Schütz et al, 1998;Plantenga and Hansen, 1999). Each chart represents one country and comprises of 11 equiangular spokes, one for each policy component.…”

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Measuring state de-familialism: Contesting post-socialist exceptionalism

Javornik

2014

Journal of European Social Policy

122

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This article offers a methodology to reveal the latent constructs which underlie policies on parental leave and childcare services. It is constructed to uncover the state assumptions about social organisation of childcare and gender roles in a country-comparative perspective. Legal regulations are central to this analysis, and combinations of policy components take centre stage. An index of state de-familialism isproposed and its analytical potential tested on eight post-socialist EU states. Grounded in Leitner's (2003) conceptualisation of familialism, it gauges three policy types: (1) Slovenian and Lithuanian supported defamilialism incentivises women's continuous employment and active fatherhood, (2) explicit familialism in Hungary, Czech Republic, and Estonia supports familial childcare and reinforces gendered parenting, and (3) implicit familialism in Poland, Slovakia, and Latvia leaves parents without public support. These groups share core characteristics with developed welfare-state regimes. This methodology has the potential to discredit claims of post-socialist exceptionalism and allows researchers to test new hypotheses.

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Assessing equal opportunities in the European Union

Cited by 65 publications

References 5 publications

Sexual harassment in sport toward females in three European countries

Sexual harassment in sport toward females in three European countries

Comparative Research on Women's Employment

Measuring state de-familialism: Contesting post-socialist exceptionalism

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