The Interplay Between Gender, Markets and the State in Sweden, Germany and the United States

"Key issues and debates on women's political struggles and employment are covered, as the book focuses on the regulation of gender relations and how the behaviour of men and women has been adjusted to certain patterns of gender relations - for example the male breadwinner role. The author argues that political and social struggles give rise to particular forms of regulation, which are the main sources of divergence in patterns of gender relations across countries. Hence, each country adopts its own variant of the most dominant patterns of gender relations."--BOOK JACKET.