Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of tables and figures iv
4. Notes on contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Glossary xi
7. Introduction
8. Introduction 3
9. Women and social change 11
10. Survey designs for longitudinal research 27
11. The issues
12. The role of education on postponement of maternity in Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden 55
13. The financial consequences of relationship dissolution for women in Western Europe 81
14. Women’s incomes over a synthetic lifetime 111
15. Fixed-term contracts and unemployment at the beginning of the employment career in Germany: does gender matter? 133
16. Women and self-employment: the case of television production workers in Britain 159
17. Gender wage differentials in Britain and Japan* 189
18. Longitudinal analysis and the constitution of the concept of gender 229
19. Data sources
20. Concluding comments 261
21. Appendix: Description and characteristics of longitudinal data sets used in this book 269
22. Index 283