Failing family policy in post-communist Central Europe

Saxonberg, Steven; Sirovátka, Tomáš

doi:10.4324/9780429441660-15

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“…Finally, in the two Eastern European countries, Bulgaria and Hungary, the economic situation is poorer than in the other countries included in our study. Even though gender inequality is lower on the agenda in Bulgaria and Hungary, there are generous maternity and parental leave arrangements after the birth of a child (The´venon & Neyer, 2014), which are partly seen as encouraging women to leave the labor market to raise children (Saxonberg & Sirovatka, 2006).…”

Section: The National Contextmentioning

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Organizational Work–Life Policies and the Gender Wage Gap in European Workplaces

Lippe

Breeschoten

Hek

2018

Work and Occupations

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Many organizations in Europe offer work-life policies to enable men and women to combine work with family life. The authors argue that the availability of organizational work-life policies can also reduce gender inequality in wages. The authors test their expectations using the European Sustainable Workforce Survey, with data from 259 organizations and their employees in 9 European countries. Multilevel analyses show that organizations that offer work-life policies have a smaller gender wage gap. Their findings also suggest that both the type and number of policies matter. Contrary to their expectations, dependent care policies, such as parental leave and childcare support, are less important for the gender wage gap than flexibility policies. Controlling for organizational culture regarding family supportiveness does not alter the results.

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Section: The National Contextmentioning

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Organizational Work–Life Policies and the Gender Wage Gap in European Workplaces

Lippe

Breeschoten

Hek

2018

Work and Occupations

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“…Kotowska et al () indicate economic reforms lead to an increasing vulnerability of the family and increasing difficulties in combining work and family life. The neoliberal approach in the labour market disproportionately affects women, who often experience problems after returning to work after parental leave (Saxonberg & Sirovátka, ). Lack of stability in the labour market leads to a situation in which individuals feel that they have little or no control over their lives, especially in terms of financial security.…”

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“…This part of the article is based on the author's analysis of the family policy system conducted in connection to a research project on the work/life balance. More details on the historical development of the Polish system can be found at Saxonberg (), Saxonberg and Sirovátka (), Saxonberg and Szelewa (), Suwada (), Szelewa (, ), and Szarfenberg (, ).…”

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Agency in parents' fertility behaviours—Gaps in the Polish family policy system

Suwada

2019

Soc Policy Adm

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The aim of this article is to analyse the possibilities and decisions made about procreation by Polish parents in the context of the family policy system. Fertility is here understood as a result of individual decisions originating from an assessment of people's situations and potential barriers in parenting. This issue is important because Polish society is facing a severe demographic crisis due to low fertility rates. In recent years, the family policy system has been substantially reformed, yet interviews with parents indicate that these reforms do not fully address the problems, which parents have to deal with in everyday life. According to their experiences, the Polish welfare state should focus more closely on the issues of gender inequality in the household, lack of stability in the labour market, low salaries, the high cost of child rearing, and the lack of suitable housing for Polish families. The analysis is based on in‐depth interviews with Polish parents of children aged 1–7 and statistics collected by Statistics Poland, the Social Insurance Institution, and the International Social Survey Program.

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“…This contributes to a widespread feeling of insecurity among women, as employers often lay off mothers returning from their parental leave. Moreover, post-communist women believe that they must and should work to support their families [ 48 ]. As a result, precarious work has acquired a specific form for women who are forced to accept precarious jobs when they have care responsibilities as a temporary strategy that may turn into a trap excluding them from a better job [ 40 , 49 ].…”

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Long Working Hours and Job Quality in Europe: Gender and Welfare State Differences

Artazcoz

Cortés-Franch

Escribà‐Agüir

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IJERPH

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Chronic extreme long working hours (LWH) have been found consistently associated with poor health status. However, the evidence for moderately LWH (41–60 h a week) is contradictory. Although poor job quality has been proposed as one of the mechanisms of this relationship, there are almost no studies about LWH and job quality. The objectives of this study were to analyze the association between moderately LWH and job quality in the EU27, as well as to examine differences by welfare regimes and gender. This is a cross-sectional study based on data from the 2010 European Working Conditions Survey. A subsample of employees from the EU27 aged 16–64 years who worked 30–60 h a week was selected (12,574 men and 8787 women). Overall, moderately LWH were not consistently associated with poor job quality except among women from Eastern European countries. Therefore, in the EU27 poor job quality does not seem to explain the relationship between moderately LWH and poor health status. The findings among women from Eastern European countries may be related to their weakened position in the labor market and to their work-family conflict resulting from a process of re-familisation that constrains their choices for a good job.

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Failing family policy in post-communist Central Europe

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Organizational Work–Life Policies and the Gender Wage Gap in European Workplaces

Organizational Work–Life Policies and the Gender Wage Gap in European Workplaces

Agency in parents' fertility behaviours—Gaps in the Polish family policy system

Long Working Hours and Job Quality in Europe: Gender and Welfare State Differences

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