Women's Work in Britain and France is a ground-breaking retheorization of what constitutes 'progress' in gender relations. The book shows that French women, although having more full-time and continuous careers and greater social policy support, retain as great a responsibility for unpaid domestic and caring work as their British counterparts. It replaces the conventional focus upon encouraging women's increased insertion into employment as the principal strategy for achieving progress in gender relations with a new focus on changing men's work patterns.

ABIGAIL GREGORY is Lecturer in French at the University of Salford. Her research has concentrated on Anglo-French comparisons of women's employment both at national level and in retailing. She has published book chapters and articles on these themes and is currently co-editing Women in Contemporary France (with Ursula Tidd). JAN WINDEBANK is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Sheffield. Her previous books include with Colin C. Williams, Informal Employment in the Advanced Economies: Implications for Work and Welfare and The Informal Economy in France.

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES IN THE WORK SITUATION OF BRITISH AND FRENCH WOMEN Women's Paid Work Women's Domestic Work Women's Community Work PART II: WOMEN'S WORK IN AN ANGLO-FRENCH CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: THEORY AND POLICY Theorising Women's Work Gender Relations: Progress and Policy Conclusions Notes References Index