Gender, parenthood and the changing European workplace: Young adults negotiating the work-family boundary

Acronym: Transitions

Transitions is a cross-national research project which examined how young European adults negotiate motherhood and fatherhood and work-family boundaries in the context of labour market and workplace change, different national welfare state regimes and family and employer supports. The project examined individual and household strategies and their consequences for well-being at the individual, family and organisational levels. This was studied in the context of parallel organisational contexts and macro-levels of public support in the 8 participating countries: Bulgaria, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and the UK.

Transitions was part of the Fifth Framework Programme of the European Commission, under the Key Action Improving Human Research Potential and the Socio-Economic Knowledge Base.

It ran from January 2003 until December 2005.