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27/02/2006 COST Social Sciences and Humanities COST Action (A34) GENDER AND WELL-BEING: INTERACTION BETWEEN WORK, FAMILY AND PUBLIC POLICIES SOCIAL INDICATORS REPORT 2005-06 Reporter: Bernard Harris CONTENTS 1. Bibliography p.3 2. Experts and organisations p.5 3. Historical enquiries p.5 4. Current statistical sources p.6 5. Reports p.7 2 1. Bibliography - Andrews, J. and Digby, A., eds. (2004), Sex and seclusion, class and custody: perspectives on gender and class in the history of British psychiatry, Amsterdam: Rodopi. - Burnette, J. (1997), ‘An investigation of the female-male wage gap during the industrial revolution in Britain’, Economic History Review, 50, 257-81. - Burnette, J. (2004), ‘The wages and employment of female day-labourers in English agriculture, 1740-1850’, Economic History Review, 57, 664-90. - Chinn. C. (1988), They worked all their lives: women of the urban poor in England, 1880-1939, Manchester: Manchester University Press. - Crafts, N. (1997), ‘Some dimensions of the “quality of life” during the British industrial revolution’, Economic History Review, 50, 617-39. - Glendinning, C. (1987), Women and poverty in Britain, Brighton: Wheatsheaf. - Glendinning, C., ed. (1992), Women and poverty in Britain: the 1990s, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf. - Harris, B. (1998), ‘Gender, height and mortality in nineteenth- and twentiethcentury Britain: some preliminary reflections’, in J. Komlos and J. Baten, eds., The biological standard of living in comparative perspective, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 413-48. - Harris, B. (2000), ‘Seebohm Rowntree and the measurement of poverty, 1899-1951’, in J. Bradshaw and R. Sainsbury, eds., Getting the measure of poverty: the early legacy of Seebohm Rowntree, Aldershot: Ashgate, 60-84. - Henry, L. (1987), ‘Mortalité des hommes et des femmes dans le passe’, Annales de Démographie Historique, 87-118. - Henry, L. (1989), ‘Men’s and women’s mortality in the past’, Population, 44, 177-201. - Humphries, J. (1991), ‘“Bread and a pennyworth of treacle”: excess female mortality in England in the 1840s’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 15, 451-73. - Jackson, R. (1996), ‘The heights of rural-born English female convicts transported to New South Wales’, Economic History Review, 49, 584-90. - Johansson, S.R. (1977), ‘Sex and death in Victorian England: an examination of age- and sex-specific death rates, 1840-1910’, in M. Vicinus, ed., A widening sphere: changing roles of Victorian women, London: Methuen, 163-81. - Johansson, S.R. (1991), ‘Welfare, mortality and gender: continuity and change in explanations for male/female mortality differences over three centuries’, Continuity and Change, 6, 135-78. - Johansson, S.R. (1996), ‘Excess female mortality: constructing survival during development in Meiji Japan and Victorian England’, in A. Digby and J. Stewart, eds., Gender, health and welfare, London: Routledge, 32-67. 3 - John, A., ed. (1986), Unequal opportunities: women’s employment in England 1800-1918, Oxford: Blackwell. - Johnson, P. and Nicholas, S. (1995), ‘Male and female living standards in England and Wales 1812-57: evidence from criminal height records’, Economic History Review, 48, 470-81. - Johnson, P. and Nicholas, S. (1997), ‘Health and welfare of women in the United Kingdom, 1785-1920’, in R. Steckel and R. Floud, eds., Health and welfare during industrialization, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 20149. - Lewis, J. (1984), Women in England 1870-1950, Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf. - Lewis, J., ed. (1986), Labour and love: women’s experience of home and family 1850-1940, Oxford: Basil Blackwell - Long, J. (1999), Conversations in cold rooms: women, work and poverty in nineteenth-century Northumberland, Woodbridge: Boydell Press. - McNay, K., Humphries, J. and Klasen, S. (1998), ‘Death and gender in Victorian England and Wales: comparisons with contemporary developing countries’, University of Cambridge Department of Applied Economics, Working Paper 9801. - Nicholas, S. and Oxley, D. (1993), ‘The living standards of women during the industrial revolution, 1795-1820’, Economic History Review, 46, 723-49. - Nicholas, S. and Oxley, D. (1996), ‘Living standards of women in England and Wales, 1785-1815: new evidence from Newgate prison records’, Economic History Review, 49, 591-99. - Oren, L. (1974), ‘The welfare of women in laboring families’, in M. Hartman and L. Banner, eds., Clio’s consciousness raised: new perspectives on the history of women, New York: Harper Torchbooks, 226-44. - Pinchbeck, I. (1930), Women workers and the industrial revolution 17501850, London: Frank Cass. - Roberts, E. (1984), A woman’s place: an oral history of working class women 1890-1940, Oxford: Basil Blackwell. - Titmuss, R. (1987), ‘The position of women’, in B. Abel-Smith and K. Titmuss, eds., The philosophy of welfare: selected writings of Richard M. Titmuss, London: Allen and Unwin, 87-101. - Todd, S. (2004), ‘Poverty and aspiration: young women’s entry to employment in interwar England’, Twentieth Century British History, 15, 11942. - Verdon, N. (2002), Rural women workers in nineteenth-century England: gender, work and wages, Woodbridge: Boydell Press. - Wiepkiing, P. and Maas, I. (2005), ‘Gender differences in poverty: a crossnational study’, European Sociological Review, 21, 187-200. 4 2. Experts and organisations - ‘ESRC Gender Equality Network’ (http://www.genet.ac.uk/). Contact: Jacqueline Scott, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RQ, UK. Email: enquiries@genet.ac.uk. - ‘Gender, work and life in the new global economy’ (http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/globalWorklife/). Contact: Hazel Johnstone, Gender Institute, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK. Email: h.johnstone@lse.ac.uk. 3. Historical enquiries - Abel-Smith, B. and Townsend, P. (1965), The poor and the poorest, London: G. Bell and Sons. - Black, C., ed. (1915), Married women's work, being the report of an enquiry undertaken by the Women's Industrial Council, London: G. Bell. - Booth, C. (1902), Life and labour of the people in London, London: Macmillan and Co., 17 volumes. - Bowley, A.L. (1913), ‘Working class households in Reading’, Journal of Royal Statistical Society, 76, 672-701. - Bowley, A.L. and Burnett-Hurst, A.R. (1915), Livelihood and poverty: a study of the economic conditions of working class households in Northampton, Warrington, Stanley and Reading, London: G. Bell and Sons. - Bowley, A.L. and Hogg, M.H. (1925), Has poverty diminished? A sequel to ‘Livelihood and poverty’, London: P.S. King and Son. - Davies, M.L., ed. (1915), Maternity: letters from working women, London: G. Bell and Sons. - Fiegehen, G.C., Lansley, P.S. and Smith, A.D. (1977), Poverty and progress in Britain 1953-73, London: National Institute of Economic and Social Research. - Ford, P. (1934), Work and wealth in a modern port, London: George Allen and Unwin. - George, R.F. (1937), ‘A new calculation of the poverty line’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 100 (Part I), 74-95. - Gordon, D. and Pantazis, C., eds. (1997), Breadline Britain in the 1990s, Aldershot: Ashgate. - Jones, D.C. ed., (1934), The social survey of Merseyside, London: Hodder and Stoughton. - Mack, J. and Lansley, S. (1985), Poor Britain, London: George Allen and Unwin. - Owen, A.D.K. (1933), A survey of the standard of living in Sheffield, Sheffield: Sheffield Social Service Committee. 5 - Rowntree, B.S. (1902), Poverty: a study of town life, London: Macmillan and Co. (2nd edition). - Rowntree, B.S. (1918), The human needs of labour, London: Thomas Nelson and Sons (first edition). - Rowntree, B.S. (1937) The human needs of labour, London: Longman’s, Green and Co. (second edition). - Rowntree, B.S. (1941), Poverty and progress: a second social survey of York, London: Longman’s, Green and Co. - Rowntree, B.S. and Kendall, M. (1913), How the labourer lives: a study of the rural labour problem, London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. - Rowntree, B.S. and Lavers, G.R. (1951), Poverty and the welfare state: a third social survey of York dealing only with economic questions, London: Longman’s, Green and Co. - Smith, H.L. (1932), The new survey of London life and labour. Volume 3. Survey of social conditions: (1) The Eastern area (text), London: P.S. King and Son. - Tout, H. (1938), The standard of living in Bristol, Bristol: Arrowsmith. - Townsend, P. (1962), ‘The meaning of poverty’, British Journal of Sociology, 18, 210-27. - Townsend, P. (1979), Poverty in the United Kingdom: a survey of household resources and standards of living, Harmondsworth: Penguin. 4. Current statistical sources - British Household Panel Survey http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Source.asp?vlnk=1308 - Data sources for the study of health, mortality, life expectancy and quality of life: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nscl.asp?ID=5013 http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nscl.asp?ID=6444; http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nscl.asp?ID=7528; http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nscl.asp?ID=8459 - Family Resources Survey http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/frs/2003_04/index.asp - Focus on Gender http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/product.asp?vlnk=10923 - General Household Survey http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Source.asp?vlnk=263 - Labour Force Survey http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Source.asp?vlnk=358 6 - National Statistics Omnibus Survey http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Source.asp?vlnk=657 - New Earnings Survey http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=5812 - ONS Longitudinal Study http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Source.asp?vlnk=904 5. Reports - Cabinet Office (2000), Women and men in the UK: Facts and figures 2000, London: Cabinet Office. URL: http://www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk/publications/pocket_book.pdf. - Dench, S., Aston, J., Evans, C., Williams, M. and Willson, R. (2002), Key indicators of women’s position in Britain, London: Women and Equality Unit. URL: http://www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk/publications/weu_key_indicators.p df. - Equal Opportunities Commission (1999), Women and men in Britain: Pay and income, London: Equal Opportunities Commission. URL: http://www.eoc.org.uk/PDF/wm_pay_and_income.pdf. - Equal Opportunities Commission (2000a), Women and men in Britain: The work-life balance, London: Equal Opportunities Commission. URL: http://www.eoc.org.uk/PDF/wm_work_life_balance.pdf. - Equal Opportunities Commission (2000b), Women and men in Britain: The labour market, London: Equal Opportunities Commission. URL: http://www.eoc.org.uk/PDF/wm_labour_market.pdf. - Equal Opportunities Commission (2000c), Women and men in Britain: At the millennium, London: Equal Opportunities Commission. URL: http://www.eoc.org.uk/PDF/wm_millennium.pdf. - Equal Opportunities Commission (2001a), Women and men in Britain: The lifecycle of inequality, London: Equal Opportunities Commission. URL: http://www.eoc.org.uk/PDF/wm_lifecycle_of_inequality.pdf. - Equal Opportunities Commission (2001b), Women and men in Britain: Pensions and social security, London: Equal Opportunities Commission. URL: http://www.eoc.org.uk/PDF/wm_pensions_and_social_security.pdf. - National Statistics (2004), Focus on gender, London: Office of National Statistics. URL: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/fog2004/Gender.p df, 7 - Perfect, D. and Hurrell, K. (2003), Pay and income (Women and Men in Britain series), London: Equal Opportunities Commission. URL: http://www.eoc.org.uk/PDF/wm_pay_and_income_2003.pdf. - Women and Equality Unit (2002), Women and men in the workplace, London: Department of Trade and Industry. URL: http://www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk/research/pubn_2002.htm. - Women and Equality Unit (2003), Changing world, changing lives: women in the UK since 1999 (fifth periodic report on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women [CEDAW]), London: Department of Trade and Industry. URL: http://www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk/research/CEDAW_report5.pdf. - Women and Equality Unit (2005a), Delivering on gender equality: a progress report on the Gender Equality Public Service Agreement 2003-6: Supporting gender equality across government, London: Department of Trade and Industry. URL. http://www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk/publications/gender_equality.pdf. - Women and Equality Unit (2005b), Individual income, 1996/7-2003/4, London: Department of Trade and Industry. URL: http://www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk/research/individual_income_report 2005.pdf. - Women and Equality Unit (2005c), Women and men in the workplace, London: Department of Trade and Industry. URL: http://www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk/research/index.htm. - Women and Work Commission (2006), Shaping a fairer future, London: Department of Trade and Industry. URL: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sysfiles/Guardian/documents/2006/02/27/equality.pdf. 8
