Description
Book SynopsisA comparative picture of the welfare state and gender relations. The authors explore how care, work and welfare are constituted in eight countries and examine the impact of the welfare state on women and men's access to resources, roles and power relations.
Trade Review"Mary Daly and Katherine Rake have produced a comprehensive 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
Table of ContentsIntroduction.
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
