Gender and the Welfare State by Mary Daly
This accessible book explores the configuration of care, work and welfare in the major European Union countries and in the USA. Bringing together the most recent empirical data available, it examines the impact of the welfare state on women's and men's roles and power relations, and on their access to resources.
"Mary Daly and Katherine Rake have produced a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between gender and the welfare state – through the integrated lenses of care, work and welfareThey combine expert syntheses of several literatures with their own empirical work, using a unique blend of quantitative and qualitative methods. Gender and The Welfare State will surely become a standard text for all scholars of comparative social policy – generalists and gender specialists alike." Janet C. Gornick, City University of New York
"A significant account of how gender relations are shaped by national welfare states and how the welfare state reaches deep into the society." International Journal of Contemporary Sociology
"This excellent book is a comparative study of gender relations and care, work and welfare in eight countries...Gender and the Welfare State provides us with comprehensive reference material that will prove a valuable book for students..." Lavinia Mittin, Work, employment and society
Mary Daly is Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Belfast; Katherine Rake is Director of the Fawcett Society.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780745622323 |
| ISBN 10 | 0745622321 |
| Title | Gender and the Welfare State |
| Author | Mary Daly |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-05-22 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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