Gender Equality in the Welfare State?

by Gillian Pascall

Book Overview

The relationship between gender and welfare states is of key importance in understanding welfare states and gender equality and inequality. Western welfare states of the post-war era were built on assumptions about gender difference: they treated men as breadwinners and women as carers. Now governments are committed in principle to gender equality. But how far have they come from male breadwinner assumptions to gender equality assumptions? How...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847426646
• ISBN13: 9781847426642
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.4"