Gender, Policy, Politics, and Work: Feminist Comparative and Transnational Research |
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| Authors: | HEIDI GOTTFRIED LAURA REESE |
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| Institution: | Heidi Gottfried is Associate Professor of Labor in the College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs at Wayne State University. Her MA in sociology is from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and her Ph.D. was received in 1987 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Over the past several years, her work, funded by ASA/NSF, DAAD, and SSRC-Abe, has focused on comparative analy-sis of flexible employment practices and regulation in the US, Germany, Sweden, and Japan.;Laura A. Reese is a professor in the Urban Planning Program and a fellow in the Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs at Wayne State University. She has published on urban politics, local economic development, comparative urban policy, and public personnel management. Her most recent books are The Civic Culture of Local Economic Development (with Raymond Rosenfeld) and Implementing Sexual Harassment Policy (with Karen Lindenberg) both with Sage Publications. Her current research interests focus on further exploration of local civic cultures in the US and Canada, comparative studies of urban consolidation and metropolitan governance, and the identification and implementation of effective sexual harassment policy. |
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| Abstract: | abstract This article reviews feminist comparative and transnational research on workplace policy, politics and the state. The first section examines a range of theoretical approaches to the topic. We then present a variety of methodologies for conducting comparative and transnational research on policy developments. Informed by a number of case studies included in the symposium, we explore the dynamics and determinants, both national and supranational, of policy formation and its impacts. Finally, we tease out the implicit and explicit notions of gender equity for future policy analysis. |
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