'You Can Stand on Your Head and Still End Up with Lower Pay': Gliding Segregation and Gendered Work Practices in Danish 'Family-friendly' Workplaces

Gender, Work and Organization

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Holt, Helle ^a   Lewis, Suzan ^a  

^a VIVE THE DANISH CENTER FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Denmark; Gender stereotypes; Gliding segregation; Sense of entitlement; Work family policies; Workplace practices

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; GENDER ISSUE; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; WORKING CONDITIONS; WORKPLACE;

DENMARK;

EID: 80051968512     PISSN: 09686673     EISSN: 14680432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2009.00501.x     Document Type: Article

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