Gender and the Welfare State: Care, Work and Welfare in Europe and the USAISBN: 978-0-7456-2232-3
Paperback
224 pages
May 2003, Polity
 Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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- Explores how care, work and welfare are constituted in eight
countries: France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands,
Sweden, the UK and the USA.
- Brings together the most recent empirical data available, in
order to examine the impact of the welfare state on women and
men’s access to resources, roles and power relations.
- Elaborates a new theoretical framework for understanding how
gender relations are shaped by national welfare states.
- Argues that the welfare state reaches deep into women and
men’s lives and that its effect is to be seen not just in how
it shapes relations among different classes but in how it affects
women and men’s relative resource and power relations.
- Examines care needs and provision, the division of paid from unpaid work, the conditions of women and men’s participation in the labour market and gender differentials in access to the resources of money and time.
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