Social security is concerned on easing the impact of contingencies that lead to capacity loss for generating income. There are, however, conceptual differences between genders with respect to social security contributions and benefits. This text is concerned with equality and specificity in the...

This Background Paper was written for the 2013 Onati Workshop ‘Interpreting and Advancing Women’s Rights to Social Security and Social Protection’ by Beth Goldblatt and Lucie Lamarche. Both the ILO and UN human rights treaty bodies revisited the human right to social security in the last...

Social Security reform is high on the agenda of many governments around the world. In thinking about gender and social security policy it is useful to consider the implications of work in feminist economics for the evaluation of existing policies and proposed reforms. This paper identifies six...

This book illustrates why both academic research and policy thinking need to factor-in gender hierarchies and structures if they are to address some of the key challenges of contemporary societies: the widespread informality and insecurity of paid work and the crisis of care