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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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The welfare state reader
Pierson, Christopher (ed.); Castles, Francis G. (contributor) - 2007 - 2. ed., repr.
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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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