Gender and the Welfare State: Care, Work and Welfare in Europe and the USA

by Mary Daly, Katherine Rake

Overview

This accessible book explores the configuration of care, work and welfare in the major European Union countries and in 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745622316
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	03/28/2003
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Mary Daly is Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Belfast; Katherine Rake is Director of the Fawcett Society.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

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

Editorial Reviews

"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

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