COST
Social Sciences and Humanities
COSTAction (A34)
Gender and Well-Being:
Interaction between Work, Family and Public Policies
SOCIAL INDICATORS REPORT 2005-06
Reporter:
Bernard Harris
CONTENTS
- Bibliography
- Experts andorganisations
- Historical enquiries
- Current statistical sources
- Reports
- 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 twentieth-century 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.
-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, 201-49.
-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 1750-1850, 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, 119-42.
-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 cross-national study’, European Sociological Review, 21, 187-200.
- Experts andorganisations
-‘ESRC Gender Equality Network’ ( Contact: Jacqueline Scott, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, CambridgeCB2 3RQ, UK. Email: .
-‘Gender, work and life in the new global economy’( Contact: Hazel Johnstone, Gender Institute, LondonSchool of Economics, Houghton Street, LondonWC2A 2AE, UK. Email: .
- 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.
-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.
- Current statistical sources
-British Household Panel Survey
-Data sources for the study of health, mortality, life expectancy and quality of life:
-Family Resources Survey
-Focus on Gender
-General Household Survey
-Labour Force Survey
-National Statistics Omnibus Survey
-New Earnings Survey
-ONS Longitudinal Study
- Reports
-Cabinet Office (2000), Women and men in the UK: Facts and figures 2000, London: Cabinet Office. URL:
-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:
-Equal Opportunities Commission (1999), Women and men in Britain: Pay and income, London: Equal Opportunities Commission. URL:
-Equal Opportunities Commission (2000a), Women and men in Britain: The work-life balance, London: Equal Opportunities Commission. URL:
-Equal Opportunities Commission (2000b), Women and men in Britain: The labour market, London: Equal Opportunities Commission. URL:
-Equal Opportunities Commission (2000c), Women and men in Britain: At the millennium, London: Equal Opportunities Commission. URL:
-Equal Opportunities Commission (2001a), Women and men in Britain: The lifecycle of inequality, London: Equal Opportunities Commission. URL:
-Equal Opportunities Commission (2001b), Women and men in Britain: Pensions and social security, London: Equal Opportunities Commission. URL:
-National Statistics (2004), Focus on gender, London: Office of National Statistics. URL:
-Perfect, D. and Hurrell, K. (2003), Pay and income (Women and Men in Britain series), London: Equal Opportunities Commission. URL:
-Women and Equality Unit (2002), Women and men in the workplace, London: Department of Trade and Industry. URL:
-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:
-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.
-Women and Equality Unit (2005b), Individual income, 1996/7-2003/4, London: Department of Trade and Industry. URL:
-Women and Equality Unit (2005c), Women and men in the workplace, London: Department of Trade and Industry. URL:
-Women and Work Commission (2006), Shaping a fairer future, London: Department of Trade and Industry. URL:
1