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Gender and Welfare State Regimes focuses on how social provision, taxation, and labour market policies structure and transform gender relations in several advanced industrial democracies. A central question is whether gender policy regimes coincide or cut across welfare state regimes. The first chapters examine the construction of gender in policies of countries representing the same welfare state regime—the conservative, liberal and social democratic regimes—while the subsequent chapters compare policies across welfare state regimes. The book argues that policy variations across the countries ... More
Keywords: gender policy, gender relations, industrial relations, labour market, political parties, social provision, state structures, taxation, welfare state, women's movements
Print publication date: 1999 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198294160 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0198294166.001.0001 |
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