"Gender and the Welfare State" explores the configuration of care,
work and welfare in eight countries: France, Germany, Ireland,
Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and 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.
Casting a critical eye over feminist and comparative literature
on the welfare state, Daly and Rake elaborate a new theoretical
framework for understanding how gender relations are shaped by
national welfare states. They argue that the welfare state reaches
deep into people's lives and that its effect is to be seen in the
relative resources and power relations of women and men. The book
traces the relationship between national welfare state
configurations and care needs and care provision, the division
between paid and unpaid work, the conditions of women's and men's
participation in the labour market and gender differentials in
access to the resources of money and time.
Written in an accessible style, "Gender and the Welfare State"
brings together wide-ranging information from the major European
Union countries as well as from the USA, providing the reader with
essential reference material. It will be welcomed by all those
interested in gender, social policies and the comparative study of
welfare states.
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