BEIS is striving to create fairer, inclusive and flexible workplaces so that everyone has the change to succeed, whilst balancing home and work life. We will unlock enterprise and cut burdens to help businesses start and grow, while reforming corporate governance and improving boardroom diversity. To that end, BEIS needs research to better understand the following:
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My research looks at the relationship between welfare state policies and gender inequalities in employment. I have already published two articles from my PhD which examine how family and employment policies in the UK and...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Southampton
The project investigates the impact of social policies on women's employment and gender inequalities, which is partially relevant to the question about family-friendly policies and their effects on the labour market.
This research aims at analysing the relationship between the concept of gender equality and "family friendly policies and law" and their implication I the EU and in some representative Member States. Well publi...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University of Leeds
The project explores the relationship between gender equality and family-friendly policies in the EU, which is partially relevant to the question about the long-term effects of such policies on the labour market.
The context of the research\nThe broad context for this research network is the ongoing quest, in western industrialised nations, for the achievement of work/family reconciliation. Many countries have attempted, through ...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University of Reading
The project aims to establish a research network to explore and improve laws related to work/family reconciliation, which is partially relevant to the question about the long-term effects of family-friendly policies on the labour market.