Titlebook: Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context; Uncovering the Gende Shahra Razavi (Research Coordinator),Shireen Hassi Book 2006 UNRISD 2006

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Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of ‘the Social’omic reform. These changes have come in the wake of widespread realization of the failure of the neoliberal economic model to generate economic growth and dynamism, and to reduce poverty. At the same time, processes of political liberalization have opened spaces for social movements in many parts of

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Mothers at the Service of the New Poverty Agenda: The PROGRESA/Oportunidades Programme in Mexico entitlements resting on culturally sanctioned and deeply rooted notions of gender difference and patriarchal authority. These have generally accorded with idealized assumptions about the asymmetric social positions occupied by the sexes with male breadwinners and female mother-dependents receiving

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Gender and Post-socialist Welfare States in Central Eastern Europe: Family Policy Reforms in Poland stems. One of the key challenges in so doing was balancing the tension between a tradition of — and in some countries continued commitment to — extensive welfare provisioning and income redistribution on the one hand, and the residualist social policy setup advocated by the currently dominant global

享乐主义者

Maternalist Policies versus Women’s Economic Citizenship? Gendered Social Policy in Irannd implementation across regions in the world economy? In the Middle East, for example, what are the state policies, practices and institutions that directly influence the welfare and security of various groups within a particular society, especially as far as women are concerned? And if social poli

NATAL

Gender Equality and Developmental Social Welfare in South Africa a fifth category has emerged: the developmental welfare state. As with research on Esping-Andersen’s categorization of ‘three worlds of welfare capitalism’, early research on developmental social policy is revealing enormous variants within this category as well (Mkandawire 2004). Feminist studies

Minuet

Social Policy Reforms and Gender in Japan and South Koreare those who claim that despite the remarkable developments in the social, economic and political spheres, very little has changed in terms of women’s status (Moon 2002). Proponents of this `no real change’ perspective point to these countries’ poor records in the Human Development Report (HDR) indi

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The Evolution of the Women-friendly State: Opportunities and Constraints in the Swedish Welfare Statourses on equality. It has been one of the most interventionist states, mitigating the power of capital and markets to control workers and working conditions. It scores highest on the dimensions of social rights that decommodify workers, that is, policies that weaken a worker’s dependence on the mar

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The Adult-worker-model Family and Gender Equality: Principles to Enable the Valuing and Sharing of Ce unpaid work of care, has been substantially eroded (Crompton 1999; Lewis 2001a). There is also substantial agreement that the actual patterns of family formation and dissolution and labour-market participation have changed, but there has been, if anything, a more rapid shift still in normative ide

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Labour Market Informalization, Gender and Social Protection: Reflections on Poor Urban Households inour market informalization, poverty and economic insecurity. It explores the dynamics of informality and its distributional aspects, and it demonstrates how job precariousness and vulnerability are interconnected as well as the importance of their gender dimensions. The paper is based on a study of