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Breadwinners and citizens : gender in the making of the French social model
Frader, Laura Levine - 2008
Laura Levine Frader advances the argument that the male breadwinner ideal was stronger in France in the interwar years …
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Women across continents : feminist comparative social policy
Dominelli, Lena - 1991 - 1. publ.
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Normalization and "outsiderhood" : feminist readings of a neoliberal welfare state
Fahlgren, Siv (contributor); Johansson, Anders (contributor) - 2011
This volume presents an illuminating analysis of the ways in which normalization processes and practices operate in a welfare state in an age of neoliberalism. This informative book problematizes the meaning of the phrase 'normalization processes and practices', that for an Anglophone audience...
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The Power of Gender Perspectives : Feminist Influence on Policy Paradigms, Social Science, and Social Politics
Orloff, Ann Shola - 2010
Feminist scholarship changed the study of welfare states; influential policy experts have taken off from the feminist critique, incorporating it as they crafted their own social investment strategy, (mis-)translating (and transforming) feminist arguments into an economic rationale. Social...
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Towards a reparative welfare state
Klein, Elise - In: New political economy 28 (2023) 1, pp. 126-141
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Do welfare state taxes and transfers reduce gender income inequality? : evidence from eight European countries
Avram, Silvia; Popova, Daria - 2020
We complement the institutional literature on gender and the welfare state by examining how taxes and transfers affect … various welfare regime types. We quantify the extent to which taxes and transfers are able to close the gender gap in earnings …-age pensions, taxes and transfers - both contributory and means-tested - significantly reduce gender income inequality but cannot …
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From private to religious patriarchy : gendered consequences of faith-based welfare provision in Germany
Hien, Josef - 2017
Over one million people work for a faith-based welfare provider in Germany. Caritas and Diakonie, the largest faith-based providers in Germany enjoy prerogatives that do not exist in other countries. This particular group of faith-based organizations is exempt from federal labor law and...
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Who benefits from an adult worker model? : gender inequality in couples' daily time use in Germany across time and social classes
Deuflhard, Carolin - In: Socio-economic review 21 (2023) 3, pp. 1391-1419
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Mandatory volunteer work as fair reciprocity for unemployment and social benefits?
Veldboer, Lex; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2015
Modern welfare policies are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity. Citizens on welfare benefits have to do something in return, e.g. volunteer work. Notwithstanding general public support, social philosophers have been critical on 'mandatory' activities in community programmes. So far,...
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Dynamic social security after the crisis : towards a new welfare state?
Diamond, Patrick; Lodge, Guy - In: International social security review 67 (2014) 3/4, pp. 37-59
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