ISBN:
9781847423412
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
Paralleltitel:
Print version Gender Equality and Welfare Politics in Scandinavia : The Limits of Political Ambition?
DDC:
305.40948
Schlagwort(e):
Gender-based analysis
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Equality
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Sex discrimination
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Family policy
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Equality ; Scandinavia
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Family policy ; Scandinavia
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Gender mainstreaming ; Scandinavia
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Scandinavia ; Social policy
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Sex discrimination ; Scandinavia
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Electronic books
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Scandinavia Social policy
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Aufsatzsammlung
Kurzfassung:
This book examines the meanings of gender that underpin policies in the Scandinavian welfare states, historically and today, and raises the question whether the hallmark of the Scandinavian welfare model is a special combination of gender equality and gender differentiation.
Kurzfassung:
Intro -- Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia -- Contents -- List of tables -- Preface -- Notes on contributors -- A Nordic model of gender equality? Introduction -- The challenges of today -- A Nordic model? -- A dual breadwinner model? -- New perspectives on parenthood -- Women's economic citizenship - a key issue -- A generational uproar? -- Ethnicity - diversity and Nordic gender-equality models -- Politics, science and everyday life -- The concept of gender equality in a historical context -- 1. Woman-friendly policy paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia -- Introduction -- Equality versus difference - a contextual and socially constructed dilemma -- The solution to Wollstonecraft's dilemma: visions for shared caregiving and breadwinning -- Gender equality and Scandinavian welfare states -- Woman-friendly welfare states or modernised patriarchies? -- Understanding difference -- Gender visions of Scandinavian care policies -- Maternity and parental leave -- Day-care services -- Homecarer allowance -- Post-industrial policy paradoxes -- Perspectives on the Scandinavian policy paradoxes -- 2. The claim of economic citizenship:the concept of equality in a historical context -- Equality now and then -- Male breadwinner model or dual breadwinner model? -- Different meanings of gender equality -- 'Economic citizenship' - for the few -- Women's economic independence - subject to women's agency -- Parenthood and the discourse of equality -- Concluding remarks -- 3. Married women's right to pay taxes: debates on gender, economic citizenship and tax law reform in Denmark, 1945-83 -- Gendered tax legislation in Denmark, 1903-83 -- Debates on gender, economic citizenship and tax legislation -- Conclusion -- 4. Family policy between science and politics -- Introduction.
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