Chapter
1 | Employment opportunities for women in Europe
Theoretical perspectives on women’s employment in Europe
Main features of women’s employment in Europe
Potential impact of Women’s Studies training on equality of opportunity in employment in the EU
2 | Equal opportunities in cross-European perspective
Processes of institutionalization of equal opportunities
(Un)equal opportunities in practice: the views of Women’s Studies students
Equal opportunities and employment
Equal opportunities and Women’s Studies: Women’s Studies graduates as agents of social change
3 | The institutionalization of Women’s Studies in Europe
The institutionalization process of Women’s Studies in Europe
Some consequences of the uneven development of the institutionalization of Women’s Studies
Some conclusions - future agendas
4 |The professionalization of Women’s Studies students in Europe: expectations and experiences
Research questions and methodology
Expectations and experiences of Women’s Studies training
Employment sectors for Women’s Studies
Women’s Studies training as a professionalization process
Women’s Studies offers professionalization of equal opportunities
Gender expertise is of use in civil society
Professionalization as mobility for specialists
Women’s Studies students professionalize themselves in the labour market
The professionalism of Women’s Studies graduates
Transferable skills and the feminist lens
Innovative working life practices
Discourses of work and career
5 | The impact of Women’s Studies on its students’ relationships and everyday practices
Accessing Women’s Studies training
The impact of Women’s Studies on its students’ personal lives
Women’s Studies as an identity project
How Women’s Studies achieves its impact
Cultural contexts and Women’s Studies
Socio-domestic lifestyles
Relationships within the family
Relationships with children
Relationships with partners and domestic arrangements
Female friendship networks
6 | Educational migration and gender: Women’s Studies students’ educational mobility in Europe
Student mobility in Women’s Studies - the numbers
‘Receiving’ and ‘sending’: divisions by country
Erasmus student mobility in general and gender equality
Motives for and impediments to studying abroad
The experience of studying abroad
The impact of study abroad on educational migrants
Educational migration and European citizenship - some conclusions
7 | Gender, race, ethnicity and nationality in Europe: findings from a survey
Race, ethnicity, migration and Europe
Answering the question about ethnic background
Religion and ethnic background
Other ways of seeing ethnic background
8 | Comparative research in Europe
Research questions and design
Frameworks for communication
Concepts and intellectual mapping
Quantitative and qualitative research methods
Comparability and non-harmonized data
Comparability and harmonized data
Doing Women's Studies
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