Gender, Equality and Welfare States
What differences do welfare state variations make for women? How do women and men fare in different welfare states? Diane Sainsbury answers these questions by analyzing the United States, Britain, Sweden and The Netherlands, whose welfare policies differ in significant ways. Building on feminist research, she determines the extent to which legislation reflects and perpetuates the gendered division of labor in the family and society, as well as what types of policy alter gender relations in...
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Feminist critique of US, UK, Swedish, and Dutch welfare systems, with proposals for achieving greater gender equality.
List of figuresList of tablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction11Mainstream welfare state variations92Gendering dimensions of welfare states333The male breadwinner model and women's entitlements as wives494Women's entitlements as mothers and caregivers735Women's employment and entitlements as workers1046Access to benefits and the stratifying effects of bases of entitlement1297Benefit inequalities and redistributive outcomes1488Gender equality reforms and their impact1739Welfare state retrenchment198Notes225References231Index252
