Gender and the Welfare State

"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 welfare. They 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

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Mary Daly is Professor of Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast; Katherine Rake is Director of the Fawcett Society.

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IntroductionChapter 1 Studying the Welfare State and Gender: The Insights of Existing WorkChapter 2 Framework of AnalysisChapter 3 Gender and the Provision of CareChapter 4 Gender and WorkChapter 5 Welfare, Household Resources and Gender RelationsChapter 6 Bringing it All Back Home: Individual Resources, Family Redistribution and Gender RelationsChapter 7 Towards an Explanation of National Configurations and Cross-national PatternsChapter 8 Conclusions and OverviewNotesBibliographyIndexTechnical Appendix

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