Towards a gendering of the labour market regulation debate
批判了将性别变量简单纳入劳动力市场规制分析的做法，指出跨国家比较证据薄弱，主张通过具体国家背景和时空差异来理解性别与规制的互动，对政策制定者和性别研究者有参考价值。
Gender equality has become an issue in the labour market regulation debate. Now that evidence suggests that regulation is not always a barrier to good employment performance, recent contributions have focused on its impact in exacerbating within-workforce inequalities, including gender inequality. This article reveals that the evidence supporting this proposition is thin and inconclusive and questions the search for a cross national relationship between regulations and gender. This approach leaves out of consideration the differences in institutional interactions in specific national contexts and the differences in the institution of gender across time and space. This critique is developed through more detailed and context specific analyses of interactions between gender and six areas of labour market regulation. The article concludes by arguing that simply introducing a general gender variable into non gendered analyses of labour markets misleads more than informs and distracts from the development of regulations to promote gender equality.