Doing Women's Studies: Employment Opportunities, Personal Impacts and Social Consequences

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 Contents
 Tables and figure
 Acknowledgements
 Introduction
 1 Employment opportunities for women in Europe
 Theoretical perspectives on women\'s employment in Europe
 Main features of women\'s employment in Europe
 Potential impact of Women\'s Studies training on equality of opportunity in employment in the EU
 Conclusions
 2 Equal opportunities in cross-European perspective
 Processes of institutionalization of equal opportunities
 (Un)equal opportunities in practice: the views of Women\'s Studies students
 Equal opportunities and employment. Equal opportunities and Women\'s Studies: Women\'s Studies graduates as agents of social changeConclusions
 3 The institutionalization of Women\'s Studies in Europe
 The institutionalization process of Women\'s Studies in Europe
 Some consequences of the uneven development of the institutionalization of Women\'s Studies across Europe
 Some conclusions --
future agendas
 4 The professionalization of Women\'s Studies students in Europe: expectations and experiences
 Research questions and methodology
 Expectations and experiences of Women\'s Studies training
 Employment sectors for Women\'s Studies. Women\'s Studies training as a professionalization processWomen\'s Studies offers professionalization of equal opportunities
 Gender expertise is of use in civil society
 Professionalization as mobility for specialists
 Women\'s Studies students professionalize themselves in the labour market
 The professionalism of Women\'s Studies graduates
 Transferable skills and the feminist lens
 Gender expertise
 Innovative working life practices
 Discourses of work and career
 Conclusion
 5 The impact of Women\'s Studies on its students\' relationships and everyday practices. Accessing Women\'s Studies trainingThe impact of Women\'s Studies on its students\' personal lives
 Women\'s Studies as an identity project
 How Women\'s Studies achieves its impact
 Cultural contexts and Women\'s Studies
 Socio-domestic lifestyles
 Relationships within the family
 Relationships with children
 Relationships with partners and domestic arrangements
 Female friendship networks
 Overall quality of life
 6 Educational migration and gender: Women\'s Studies students\' educational mobility in Europe
 Student mobility in Women\'s Studies --
the numbers. \'Receiving\' and \'sending\': divisions by countryErasmus student mobility in general and gender equality
 Courses and credits
 Information and funding
 Motives for and impediments to studying abroad
 The experience of studying abroad
 The impact of study abroad on educational migrants
 Educational migration and European citizenship --
some conclusions
 7 Gender, race, ethnicity and nationality in Europe: findings from a survey of women\'s studies students
 Race, ethnicity, migration and Europe
 Answering the question about ethnic background
 Colour matters
 Nationality
 The matter of regions.