Gender and the Welfare State
Care, Work and Welfare in Europe and the USA
1. Edition May 2003
224 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Gender and the Welfare State explores the configuration of
care, work and welfare in eight countries: France, Germany,
Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the USA.
Bringing together the most recent empirical data available, it
examines the impact of the welfare state on women's and
men's roles and power relations, and on their access to
resources.
Casting a critical eye over feminist and comparative literature
on the welfare state, Daly and Rake elaborate a new theoretical
framework for understanding how gender relations are shaped by
national welfare states. They argue that the welfare state reaches
deep into people's lives and that its effect is to be seen in
the relative resources and power relations of women and men. The
book traces the relationship between national welfare state
configurations and care needs and care provision, the division
between paid and unpaid work, the conditions of women's and
men's participation in the labour market and gender
differentials in access to the resources of money and time.
Written in an accessible style, Gender and the Welfare
State brings together wide-ranging information from the major
European Union countries as well as from the USA, providing the
reader with essential reference material. It will be welcomed by
all those interested in gender, social policies and the comparative
study of welfare states.
Chapter 1 Studying the Welfare State and Gender: The Insights of
Existing Work.
Chapter 2 Framework of Analysis.
Chapter 3 Gender and the Provision of Care.
Chapter 4 Gender and Work.
Chapter 5 Welfare, Household Resources and Gender Relations.
Chapter 6 Bringing it All Back Home: Individual Resources,
Family Redistribution and Gender Relations.
Chapter 7 Towards an Explanation of National Configurations and
Cross-national Patterns.
Chapter 8 Conclusions and Overview.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
Technical Appendix
analysis of the relationship between gender and the welfare state
- through the integrated lenses of care, work and welfare.
They combine expert syntheses of several literatures with their own
empirical work, using a unique blend of quantitative and
qualitative methods. Gender and The Welfare State will
surely become a standard text for all scholars of comparative
social policy - generalists and gender specialists alike."
Janet C. Gornick, City University of New York
"A significant account of how gender relations are shaped by
national welfare states and how the welfare state reaches deep into
the society." International Journal of Contemporary
Sociology
"This excellent book is a comparative study of gender relations
and care, work and welfare in eight countries...Gender and the
Welfare State provides us with comprehensive reference material
that will prove a valuable book for students..." Lavinia Mittin,
Work, employment and society