Given the growing importance of Eastern European countries in the development of the EU, there is an urgent need to reconstruct the recent dynamic developments in women's work and care in these societies, and the socio-political determinants thereof. Considering their specific cultural, economic and historical development, it can be assumed that the trends and determinants of women's labour market trajectories in CEE countries differ significantly from those in the other European countries that have frequently made up the basis for established theories in social and labour market research. This being the case, can 'standard' theoretical approaches, mostly modelled on evidence from Western Europe, be transferred to the analysis of Eastern European countries? This edited collection scrutinises pivotal aspects of women's careers in Eastern Europe, providing a detailed overview of trends and determinants of women's employment in Eastern Europe, and reflecting critically on theoretical approaches in social and labour market research.
Triin Roosalu is Associate Professor and Researcher at the Institute of International and Social Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia.
Dirk Hofäcker is Professor of Quantitative Social Research Methods at the Department of Educational Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He specializes in internationally comparative social research.
Kadri Aavik, Tallinn University, Estonia Tatiana Bajuk Sen?ar, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, Slovenia Ursula Bazant, Austrian Ministry of Education and Women's Affairs, Austria Sonja Blum, University of Vienna, Austria Lenka Formankova, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Réka Geamba?u, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania Leeni Hansson, Tallinn University, Estonia Jelena Helemäe, Tallinn University, Estonia Dirk Hofäcker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Jana Javornik, University of Leeds, UK S?awomira Kami?ska-Berezowska, University of Silesia, Poland Anna Matysiak, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID)/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Martina Mysíková, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Marion Pajumets, Tallinn University, Estonia Blanka Plasová, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic Triin Roosalu, Tallinn University, Estonia Eve-Liis Roosmaa, Tallinn University, Estonia Jan Riebling, Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, Germany Joanna Rozanska-Putek, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Ellu Saar, Tallinn University, Estonia Rumiana Stoilova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Kadri Täht, Tallinn University, Estonia Jan Van Bavel, University of Leuven, Belgium Daniele Vignoli, University of Florence, Italy Ji?í Vyhlídal, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
