Working Time,Gender and Family: An East‐West European Comparison

This article provides a comparison of three West European countries with five Central East European countries in respect of working time and the integration of work and family life. The countries are the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK in West Europe and Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia in Central East Europe. As well as providing an East–West comparison, the article also takes into account the differing institutional and policy contexts in the selected countries and the different routes to flexibility. A further aim of the article is to extend our understanding of the culture and values which underpin the organization of family and work in each country. Whilst there is a clear East–West divide, all eight countries demonstrate diverse routes to flexibility and different mixes of social policies and gender cultures which have lead to considerable differences in the integration of work and family life.     

家族企业管理机制创新探析

改革开放以来 ,我国私营经济获得了长足的发展 ,并为我国经济和社会发展做出了重要贡献 ,成为社会主义市场经济的重要组成部分。但随着市场外在条件和社会经济发展格局的变化 ,作为私营资本形式之一的家族企业 ,其自身的不适应性逐步凸现出来。克服家族式管理的不足 ,转换管理机制和管理方式 ,通过资本市场使家族企业完成由家庭化向专业化、由宗法化向市场化的转变 ,是使其真正做大做强的必由之路     

现代家庭和谐心理教育探析

构建和谐社会需要相适应的现代家庭教育,特别是家庭和谐心理教育。个体自身的心理和谐、人与自然的心理和谐、人与社会的心理和谐、人与人的心理和谐都给家庭和谐心理教育提出了新要求。家庭和谐心理教育要探索新形势下开展和谐心理教育的方法途径,实现家庭与家庭、家庭与学校、家庭与社会教育机构的良性互动,为建设和谐社会发挥作用。     

让素质教育走进中国家庭

在提倡素质教育的今天,家庭中的素质教育却不容乐观。文章针对家庭中素质教育的现状,指出应以培养健康人格为核心,转变家长观念,对孩子进行科学合理的思想道德素质教育、身体心理素质教育和科学文化素质教育。     

中国乡镇企业崛起的多维分析

乡镇企业随着中国社会变革和现代化进程的深入应运而生,其产业特征并不符合标准的转轨型经济模式,它诞生之初面对的是市场交易和私产受到严格限制的计划经济体制,贫困且对现代工业技术一无所知的农民是如何创办工业企业的,需要从多重角度分析。     

Equal opportunities,true options or hidden unemployment? A comparative perspective on labour‐market marginality

Previous studies have shown that women generally adjust to unemployment better than men. This study shows that young women value work equally as highly as men, and have negative feelings when unemployed, which indicates the existence of a closed gender gap. However, children have a different influence on men's and women's unemployment experiences. Being a parent increases job-search activity and work involvement among men. On the other hand, children moderate negative experiences of unemployment among women, and they decrease their job-search activity and work involvement. Being a parent increases labour-market marginality among young unemployed women. For young men it is a motivational factor for searching for and getting a job. The comparison shows furthermore that patterns of re-employment vary in the involved countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Scotland. They reflect differences in the overall unemployment situation in the countries and the welfare strategies applied.     

First Housing Moves in Spain: An Analysis of Leaving Home and First Housing Acquisition

This paper examines young people's firsthousing acquisition in Spain. The majority ofyoung Spanish people leave home to buy aproperty and to live with a partner and/orchild. We examine the extent to which thistransition dominates first housing moves duringthe 1980s and consider the ways in which widerfamily networks facilitate leaving home to buya property. We then examine characteristicsassociated with deviation from this normativeroute. We find alternative transitions,particularly moving into rented accommodation,are more common among young people from moreadvantaged backgrounds, and those living innorthern Spain.     

The Experience of Gender Change in Public Sector Organizations

The state has a twofold relationship to gender change in society, through its overall steering capacity and through the gendered character of its constituent agencies. It is therefore important to understand the experience of gender change in state organizations. The findings from a study of gender relations in ten public‐sector worksites in New South Wales, Australia are presented. There is a widespread consciousness of gender change linked with new labour processes, restructuring and new patterns of management. These changes are uneven and limits to change are visible. Gender is recognized as an organizational problem in specific circumstances, most visibly where men’s resistance to change appears. A number of mechanisms limit the consciousness of gender as a problem. Several trends, including the current strength of neo‐liberalism, converge to make the gender‐neutral workplace the principal goal of gender reform in the public‐sector workplace. This, however, limits the state’s steering capacity in regard to societal gender relations.     

如何推进中等职业学校学生素质教育

素质教育是现阶段中国教育学界最热门的话题,各界都在从各方面来探讨如何推进中等职业学校学生素质教育。在现实中,各中等职业学校在招生方面普遍面临着问题,各所中专学校招收的学生素质普遍不高,毕业学生在社会上用人单住心目中反映也不好,如何推进中等职业学校学生素质教育?是摆在中等职业学校教育工作面前的一个重要问题。笔者作为一名中等职业学校的教育工作者从以下四方面来探讨如何推进中等职业学校学生素质教育,仅供大家参考。     

Collapsing the Boundaries? Fatherhood,Organization and Home‐Working

In the modern western world, the discursive construction of fatherhood and everyday fathering practices has been underpinned by the spatial separation of work from home, of public from private. However, increasing numbers of employees are now working from home and a disproportionate number of these are men with young children. This article draws on new empirical research to examine the implications for fathers and for organizations as home‐working disrupts earlier spatial configurations of fatherhood and fathering practices. The article concludes that as the spatial boundaries between home and work collapse, new accommodations between fatherhood/fathering and organization are emerging. However, these are underpinned by a traditional gender division of labour in the household. More broadly, these findings confirm the inadequacy of static distinctions between public and private, showing that while such distinctions are still used to mark space and time, this is relational, contingent and unstable.