abstract: 'Twenty-five years after the fall of the communist regimes, the gender

  gap in employment varies widely across Central and Eastern Europe. This

  study examines the societal-level reasons for this variation and

  assesses the impact of different dimensions of neoliberally minded

  ``economic development{''''} strategies on gender inequality. We focus on

  Central and Eastern Europe, a segment of the world not typically

  addressed in the literature on gender and development. We rely on the

  2008 and 2012 waves of the European Union Statistics on Income and

  Living Conditions survey as well as multiple macro-level data sources to

  analyze the association between development indicators, labor market

  context, social policy arrangements, and the gender employment gap. We

  find that typical growth indicators, global market integration, and

  social policy arrangements are not at all or only weakly associated with

  the gender employment gap in this region. Instead, the labor market

  context, specifically the degree of segregation and the size of the

  public and service sectors, are more important for shaping women''s labor

  market opportunities relative to men''s at both time points. Our findings

  contribute to the literature on the trade-offs between job segregation

  and aspects of gender inequality as well as to ongoing debates within

  the field of ``gender and development{''''} by pointing out important

  variations across regions.'
affiliation: 'Fodor, E (Corresponding Author), Cent European Univ, Dept Gender Studies,
  Nador Utca 9, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary.

  Fodor, Eva, Cent European Univ, Gender Studies, Budapest, Hungary.

  Glass, Christy, Utah State Univ, Sociol, Logan, UT 84322 USA.'
author: Fodor, Eva and Glass, Christy
author-email: fodore@ceu.edu
author_list:
- family: Fodor
  given: Eva
- family: Glass
  given: Christy
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1093/sf/sox080
eissn: 1534-7605
files: []
issn: 0037-7732
journal: SOCIAL FORCES
keywords-plus: 'OCCUPATIONAL SEX SEGREGATION; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; GROWTH; INEQUALITY;

  WORK; OPPORTUNITIES; TRANSITION; COUNTRIES; EQUALITY; HUNGARY'
language: English
month: MAR
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '81'
orcid-numbers: Fodor, Eva/0000-0002-9705-4229
pages: 1275-1302
papis_id: a660e9d6b230aa643806990b229ea435
ref: Fodor2018labormarket
researcherid-numbers: 'Fodor, Eva/ABH-8322-2020

  '
times-cited: '12'
title: 'Labor Market Context, Economic Development, and Family Policy Arrangements:
  Explaining the Gender Gap in Employment in Central and Eastern Europe'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000427157400024
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '21'
volume: '96'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2018'