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13 Cards in this Set
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What are the five main connections between welfare state and gender?
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state vs. market provision
impact of states on class stratification social citizenship rights and decommodification access to paid work women's capacity to form autonomous household |
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What article?
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Orloff
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State Provision vs. Market
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CD - most family (france has more universal though than germany)
SD - less familiy, but more universal (more progressive in sweden than norway) netherlands emphasizes part time work |
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Impact of states on class stratification
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Esping Anderson says
SD = equality, CD does not Orloff says class doesn't include caring work |
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Social citizenship rights and decommodification
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universal/labor market participation / income-tested rights
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How does gender matter?
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Full time work is privileged - insurance vs. assistance
enters into welfare class strat - women majority on welfare programs women underrepresented in employer's associations wage varies |
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What's so good about family policy?
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First lose money when they lose workers because of maternity. It's better to give time off.
Reduces absenteeism. Big impact on female labor force participation rate |
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How do liberal ration childcare, and to what effect?
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Liberal - sucks in Britain
US - Title XX block grants, food, tax deductions, 1996 welfare reform, 3 months unpaid leave, companies themselves do the work family provision of services gape in income and standard of living between single and other moms lower rates of female employment |
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How do SD ration childcare, and to what effect?
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universal child care
paid leave (by state) sometimes privately operated with public funds, sometimes publicly run shortage of childcare facilities Immigrants get marginalized (and pple hate muslims) |
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Reasons for differences in policies to help women
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female power argument - strength of women's movement
state/union argument religious cleavages led to more family allowances for everyone post-industrial change (gender equality varies with productive assets- general skills better for women - knowledge intensive society better too) |
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US & Britain reasons female diff policies?
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voluntary, toe in politics, party politics, women's movements
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France and Germany reasons female diff policies
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state develops benefits (all of germany's under welfare, in france some under welfare, some state ed)
party politics, strong state france - only moderalte "decommodification" - labor market policies like CD - diverges on family |
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SPECIAL french childcare story
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two groups of women
catholic nuns middle class, catholic laywomen - get kindergartens, maternal aid societies catholic church and regime work together for public religious childcare then third republic gets upset b/c church too much power, large struggle against church children = resource, fertility rates down, men take up women's causes |
