The authors of this book are critical to gender regimes in the fields of education, work, family life and politics. They are convinced that women and men are faced with different structural opportunities and barriers. Women are faced with significantly less chances to transform and transfer their cultural and social capital into a political one.

Milica Anti? Gaber is professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and president of the Slovene Sociological Association. Her research interests are gender, politics, migrations, violence and the body.

Contents: Milica Anti? Gaber: The Structuring of Slovenian Society and Gender as the Structured and the Structuring Structure – Slavko Gaber: Contemporary Slovenian Society and its Rationalities – Veronika Tašner/Sara Rožman: The Influence of Changes in the Field of Education on the Position of Women in Slovenian Society and Politics – Pavel Zgaga: The Influence of the Dynamics of Higher Education on the Gender Structure – Iztok Šori/Živa Humer: Institutions and Mechanisms of the Reproduction of Gender Order in the Fields of the Family and Politics – Jasna Podreka/Milica Anti? Gaber: Paid Work, Prestige Professions and Politics – Irena Selišnik/Milica Anti? Gaber: Women, Politics and the Value Orientations of Contemporary Slovenian Society.