Diane Sainsbury

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Gender and Welfare State Regimes

Gender and Welfare State Regimes focuses on how social provision, taxation, and labour market policies structure and transform gender relations across a broad specrum of countries. A central question is whether gender policy regimes coincide with or cut across welfare state regimes. The comparative design of the book provides a strong handle for answering this question.

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 subsequent chapters compare policies across welfare state regimes. The book argues that policy variations across the countries are shaped by differing strategies and demands of the women's movements, the organizational strength of labour and industrial relations frameworks, the constellation of parties supporting equality measures, and state structures.

Diane Sainsbury is Professor Emerita of Political Science, University of stockholm.

Contents

Introduction
Diane Sainsbury

• Part One: Gender Inequality and Welfare State Regimes

1. Contemporary Social-Capitalist Welfare States and Gender Inequality
Jet Bussemaker and Kees van Kersbergen

2. Employment Equality Strategies in Liberal Welfare States
Julia S. O'Connor

3. Gender and Social-Democratic Welfare States
Diane Sainsbury

• Part Two: The Gendered Impact of Policies across Welfare State Regimes

4. Public Childcare, Parental Leave, and Employment
Marcia K. Meyers, Janet C. Gornick, and Katherin E. Ross

5. Lone Mothers, Economic Well-Being, and Policies
Majella Kilkey and Jonathan Bradshaw

6. Taxation, Family Responsibilities, and Employment
Diane Sainsbury

7. Gender Equality in the Labour Market
Janet C. Gornick

• Part Three Gender Regimes and Welfare State Regimes

8. Gender, Policy Regimes, and Politics
Diane Sainsbury

Index