"eva Fodor's compelling analysis of gendered mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion in the workplaces of state-socialist Hungary and capitalist Austria provides a welcome set of comparative insights to the burgeoning literature on gender, states, and societies, and speaks to core questions in feminism and studies of inequality."--Ann Shola Orloff, coauthor, "States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States"

Acknowledgments ix
1. Three Generations of Women in Central Europe 1
2. Gender Regimes in East and West 17
3. From “K und K” to “Communism versus Capitalism”: The Social Worlds of Austria and Hungary 39
4. Exclusion versus Limited Inclusion 61
5. Mechanisms of Exclusion 76
6. Conditions of Inclusion: Examining State Policies in Austria and Hungary, 1945–1995 104
7. Difference at Work: A Case Study of Hungary
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8. Convergence in the Twenty-First Century?
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Appendix A. Data Sets, Samples, and Definition of Variables
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Appendix B. Chronology of Legislation Targeting or Affecting Women
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Notes 173
References 189
Index 201