Theorizing Inequality
Comparative Policy Regimes, Gender, and Everyday Lives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19001071 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary K Zimmerman (University of Kansas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 66-80 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tsq.12003 |
| OpenAlex | W1648954831 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 24 |
Sociological explanations of inequality are incomplete unless they fully recognize the importance of social policy regimes, the policy logics embedded within them, and how policy arrangements work to stratify and shape daily lives. In this address, I develop my arguments by examining two overlapping struggles of everyday life in the contemporary United States: balancing work and family on the one hand, and securing health-care services, both formal medical care and informal family care, on the other. Both struggles involve care deficits that are significantly more serious in the United States than in other high-income countries, in part because our policy regime contributes to rather than counters the gendered roots of work–family conflict. Comparative studies hold a key to better understanding the link between policy regimes and everyday lives, as illustrated by the author's own comparative research in Finland and in the United States In terms of policies and policy logics that promote gender equity, paid parental leave for fathers has received much recent attention from social science scholars. Sociologists are challenged to become aware of comparative social policy scholarship and to approach inequalities and the related daily conflicts and struggles—such as over care deficits—by including this work in their analyses
Care work · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Equity (law) · Everyday life · Health care · Inequality · Political economy · Political science · Positive economics · Public policy · Scholarship · Social inequality · Social policy · Sociology · Work (physics) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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Gender and the politics of time
Gender and Health
States, Markets, Families
Gendering Welfare States
Politicising Parenthood in Scandinavia
Work–Family Balance, Gender and Policy
The Divided Welfare State
Gender and the Welfare State
Gender, Equality and Welfare States
Gender and Citizenship
Forgotten FamiliesEnding the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy
Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework
Who cares? assessing generosity and gender equality in parental leave policy designs in 21 countries
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship
The Time Bind
The Wage Penalty for Motherhood
The Incomplete Revolution
Who Gets the Daddy Bonus
No Exit, No Voice
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |