The author wants to note that welfare reform is but one part of what is happening politically to gender relations, to women, and to poor mothers, even within the system of income support, in the United States. Of particular importance within income support is the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC),...

Two transformations are currently under way in Western Europe, one rapid, the other slow, but both stressful. In the labour market, mass unemployment and work flexibilisation have endermined personal security and unrevelled social cohesion. In domestic life, the demise of the male breadwinner...

The question as to whether or not 'gender matters' in the issue of the delivery of care may seem a very odd one, given the enormous literature that has developed within a number of social science disciplines that takes gender relations as the primary perspective in the analysis of care. However,...