Austerity Has Become The New Principle For Public Policy In Europe And The Us As The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Has Been Converted Into A Public Debt Crisis. However, Current Austerity Measures Risk Losing Past Progress Towards Gender Equality By Undermining Important Employment And Social Welfare Protections And Putting Gender Equality Policy Onto The Back Burner. This Volume Identifies How The Economic Crisis And The Subsequent Austerity Policies Are Affecting Women In Europe And The Us, Tracing The Consequences For Gender Equality In Employment And Welfare Systems In Nine Case Studies From Countries Facing The Most Severe Adjustment Problems. Introduction: Women's Vulnerability To Recession And Austerity / Maria Karamessini -- From Women And Recession To Women And Austerity: A Framework For Analysis / Jill Rubery -- Challenging The Balkanization Of Gender Contracts / Jacqueline O'reilly And Tiziana Nazio -- Women And Men In The Great European Recession / Francesca Bettio And Alina Verashchagina -- Gender Impacts Of The Great Recession In The United States / Randy Albelda -- Iceland In Crisis: Gender Equality And Social Equity / Thora Kristin Thorsdóttir 7. Gender, Recession And Austerity In The Uk / Jill Rubery And Anthony Rafferty -- The Labour Market Impact Of The Economic Crisis In Hungary Through The Lens Of Gender Equality / Mária Frey -- Structural Crisis And Adjustment In Greece: Social Regression And The Challenge To Gender Equality / Maria Karamessini -- Ireland In Crisis 2008-2012: Women, Austerity And Inequality / Ursula Barry And Pauline Conroy -- Employment And Austerity: Changing Welfare And Gender Regimes In Portugal / Virgínia Ferreira -- Women, Gender Equality And The Economic Crisis In Spain / Elvira González Gago And Marcelo Segales Kirzner -- Living Through The Crisis In Italy: The Labour Market Experience Of Men And Women / Alina Verashchagina And Marina Capparucci -- Policy In The Time Of Crisis: Employment Policy And Gender Equality In Europe / Paola Villa And Mark Smith -- Gender, Inequality And The Crisis: Towards More Equitable Development / Diane Perrons And Ania Plomien -- Economic Crisis And Austerity: Challenges To Gender Equality / Maria Karamessini And Jill Rubery. Edited By Maria Karamessini And Jill Rubery. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.