abstract: 'In this paper we examine the relationships between class and gender in

  the context of current debates about economic change in Greater London.

  It is a common contention of the global city thesis that new patterns of

  inequality and class polarisation are apparent as the expansion of

  high-status employment brings in its wake rising employment in

  low-status, poorly paid `servicing'' occupations. Whereas urban theorists

  tend to ignore gender divisions, feminist scholars have argued that new

  class and income inequalities are opening up between women as growing

  numbers of highly credentialised women enter full-time, permanent

  employment and others are restricted to casualised, low-paid work.

  However, it is also argued that working women''s interests coincide

  because of their continued responsibility for domestic obligations and

  still-evident gender discrimination in the labour market. In this paper

  we counterpose these debates, assessing the consequences for income

  inequality, for patterns of childcare and for work-life balance policies

  of rising rates of labour-market participation among women in Greater

  London. We conclude by outlining a new research agenda.'
affiliation: 'McDowell, L (Corresponding Author), Univ Oxford, Sch Geog \& Environm,
  Mansfield Rd, Oxford OX1 3TB, England.

  Univ Oxford, Sch Geog \& Environm, Oxford OX1 3TB, England.

  Univ London London Sch Econ \& Polit Sci, Dept Geog, London WC2A 2AE, England.

  Univ Manchester, Dept Sociol, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England.

  Policy Studies Inst, London NW1 3SR, England.

  Univ Manchester, Sch Geog, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England.'
author: McDowell, L and Perrons, D and Fagan, C and Ray, K and Ward, K
author-email: 'linda.mcdowell@ouce.ox.ac.uk

  d.perrons@lse.ac.uk

  colette.fagan@man.ac.uk

  k.ray@psi.org.uk

  k.g.ward@man.ac.uk'
author_list:
- family: McDowell
  given: L
- family: Perrons
  given: D
- family: Fagan
  given: C
- family: Ray
  given: K
- family: Ward
  given: K
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1068/a3781
eissn: 1472-3409
files: []
issn: 0308-518X
journal: ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE
language: English
month: MAR
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '77'
orcid-numbers: 'ward, kevin/0000-0002-3810-0889

  Fagan, Colette/0000-0003-3592-9154'
pages: 441-461
papis_id: 146ca884c83ca562df0a31c9d2bddde7
ref: Mcdowell2005contradictionsinters
times-cited: '58'
title: 'The contradictions and intersections of class and gender in a global city:
  placing working women''s lives on the research agenda'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000227946800006
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usage-count-since-2013: '12'
volume: '37'
web-of-science-categories: Environmental Studies; Geography
year: '2005'