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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Quaiser-Pohl, Claudia[Herausgeber]
• Quaiser-Pohl, Claudia[Herausgeber]
• Endepohls-Ulpe, Martina[Herausgeber]

Titel

Women's Choices in Europe : Influence of Gender on Education, Occupational Career and Family Development

Auflage

1st, New ed

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The options women have to shape their lives have dramatically increased in the last decades, and this is true for all European countries. Changes in their societies with respect to women's rights have been fundamental, amongst other things as a result of the women's movement, which caused one of the greatest social revolutions of the 20th century. But considering the different starting points of the women's movement and all the other historical, cultural and political differences in the European nations it is no surprise that the situation of women is different, too, and that the process of reaching equal status with men has come to different stages in different areas of life. And, of course, there are still some fields of remarkable gender inequalities which can be noticed all over Europe. This book wants to give some insight into the differences as well as the similarities of women's lives, their educational and occupational attainment and their choices with respect to occupational career and family life in several European countries. The authors come from different countries and represent different disciplines. Therefore the chapters cover a large variety of scientific approaches and draw a fine-grained picture of the situation of women´s lives in Europe.
• Claudia M. Quaiser-Pohl is Professor of Developmental Psychology and Psychological Assessment and dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University Koblenz-Landau in Germany. She studied psychology and medicine at the universities Marburg and Bonn, received her PhD at the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf and her postdoctoral lecture qualification (habilitation) at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. Her research topics are spatial cognition, i.e. mental rotation, assessment, development and gender differences, enhancement of mathematical and scientific abilities in early childhood, family development from a cross-cultural perspective and the empowerment of women in the STEM field.
• Martina Endepohls-Ulpe. Apl. Professor at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz, Institute for Psychology. Research topics are: Women and girls in science and technology, technology education, high ability (gifted children), gender differences in the educational system (especially the situation of boys).
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