This project is about the causes and effects of women’s labour market integration, which is an issue that represents a major challenge for the European Union and its member states, and supposedly a precondition for the sustainability of the European social model. The overall aim is to analyse (1)
how local welfare systems support women’s labour market participation, as well as (2) the extent to which (and under which conditions) female labour market integration has contributed to strengthening social cohesion. The project focuses on how public and private welfare services such as care and life long learning systems intended to support women’s labour market integration have
been designed; on how women of different classes, qualifications, ethnicities, and geographical locations have grasped and made use of such policies, and on how the increase in women’s labour market integration has affected structures of inequality and social cohesion.

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