Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Deals with gender equality measures and indicators for European countries
- Looks at social and economic disparities at regional evels
- Includes theoretical explanations of creating appropriate measures and empirical findings
Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 87)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sandra Fachelli is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville. She has a postdoctorate in social science from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), PhD in sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and has a Diploma of Advanced Studies in sociology, Master in Introduction to Research in Sociology (UAB), and Master’s in Design and Management of Policies and Social Programs (FLACSO Argentina). She has a BA degree in sociology from the University of Argentina John F. Kennedy. She is a teaching coordinator and professor of the Master’s Programme in Applied Social Research Techniques (TISA) that are co-coordinated by UAB and UB. She was member of the Academic Commission and task manager of the INCASI Project. She is President of the Research Committee 06 “Inequality and Social Stratification” of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES). Her main areas of research are inequality, stratificationand social mobility, higher education, and employment.
Pedro López-Roldán is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology (UAB). He has a degree in economics and business studies from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB); an advanced degree in Mathématiques, Informatique et Applications aux Sciences de l'Homme (option Statistique et Modélisation dans les Sciences Sociales) from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales of Paris; and a Ph.D. in Sociology, from the Department of Sociology, UAB. He is a researcher at the Sociological Research Center on Everyday Life and Work (QUIT), Institute for Labour Studies (IET), UAB; and Coordinator of the Master in Applied Social Research Methods (TISA). He is also president of the research committee 41 on comparative sociology between Europe and Latin America at the Spanish Federation of Sociology. His main lines of research are: (1) social research methods: multivariate data analysis, typological construction, and mixed methods, and (2) sociology of labour and social inequalities: labour market segmentation, gender and immigration; labour trajectories; stratification and social mobility; and comparative sociology between Europe and Latin America.
Christian Suter is Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. After receiving his PhD in sociology from the University of Zurich, he was visiting scholar at the Colegio de México, visiting professor at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, and assistant professor of sociology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. He is currently doing research on social and economic inequalities, social indicators and quality of life, as well as on globalization and world society. He has published and edited more than 30 books and special issues, as well as many articles in international social sciences journals, encyclopedias, and volumes. His most recent publications include Wealth(s) and Subjective Well-being (Springer, 2019); The Middle Class in World Society (Routledge, 2020); Measuring and Understanding Complex Phenomena (Springer, 2021); and The Future of Work (Seismo, 2021). He won the Book Award of the American Sociological Association, Political Economy of the World-System Section (1993), and was also awarded the Fritz Thyssen Prize for articles in social science journals (1998), and the Research Fellow Award 2020 of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies for substantial contribution to quality-of-life research (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Measuring Gender Equality
Book Subtitle: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Some EU Countries
Editors: Enrico di Bella, Sandra Fachelli, Pedro López-Roldán, Christian Suter
Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41486-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41485-5Published: 31 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41488-6Published: 31 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41486-2Published: 30 December 2023
Series ISSN: 1387-6570
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 205
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Employee Health and Wellbeing, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Quality of Life Research