Gillian Pascall
Biographic Data
| ID | 280078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian Pascall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Pascall |
| SIGNATURE | PASCALL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Gender and Welfare States in East Asia
Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, where Confucian culture is deeply embedded, through
Introduction
This book aims to uncover gender assumptions of welfare states that are very different from Western ones, and to understand women’s experience of welfare states across a range of East Asian countries. Gender inequalities in East Asian social policies are clearly important for women across East Asia, and yet they have had too little attention in the literature comparing welfare states. The comparative literature has largely been concerned with Wes…
Gender and Welfare States in East Asia
International Encyclopedia of Social Policy
Gender equality in the welfare state?
Introduction Understanding Gender in welfare states Gendered power Gender in employment Gender care Gendered income Gendered time Conclusion.
Gender Equality in Time
Policies concerning time use are crucial to parents' experiences of paid and unpaid work and the reconciliation of work and family life. In heterosexual-couple households, gender inequalities in the distribution of paid work and care, working hours, and responsibility for children's schedules mean that mothers experience pressure on time and their ability to work, care, and manage households. Via qualitative interviews conducted in 2005–6, this c…
Gender Regimes in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
Work–family policies, participation, and practices
This paper asks about social policies for fathers' participation in childcare in Europe, and fathers' work–family reconciliation practices and ideals, with special reference to the UK. In some European countries, especially Sweden, reform has given fathers non-transferable rights to parental leave. Might such innovations enhance UK men's contribution to childcare? In the UK, gender inequalities in policy are stark: parental leave systems assume –…
Innovative Social Policies
We investigated innovative social policies drawn from the European arena — universal systems of childcare, a shorter working week and shared parental leave — asking about their relevance to the work–life balance of low‐waged coupled mothers in England. While in principle the policy environment has shifted from assumptions of a male breadwinner to dual earners, in practice severe constraints on mothers' labour market attachment bring women half th…
Gender regimes in transition in Central and Eastern Europe
Contents: Introduction: gender and the family under communism and after Gender regimes in Central and Eastern Europe Policy and parents in Poland Mothers and the state Mothers and their households Mothers and social policy Gender equality in the wider Europe Conclusion
Disability and Transition to Adulthood
What enables young people with significant impairments to make the transition to adulthood? Becoming householders, finding work, becoming parents, feeling included as citizens: these are all more challenging in the context of housing needs, a discriminatory labour market, the need for personal assistance and transport. Our study interviewed a group of 31 young adults in receipt of disability living allowance, who had jobs and independent househol…
A Confucian War over Childcare? Practice and Policy in Childcare and Their Implications for Understanding the Korean Gender Regime
We ask about the development of childcare policies in Korea and what these mean for our understanding of the gender assumptions of Korean governments. Women's labour market participation has been increasing rapidly, with married women now much more likely to be in the labour market. The provision and regulation around support for women's employment, and especially for mothers’ employment, is a key issue and problem for Korean women and for govern…
Emerging Gender Regimes and Policies for Gender Equality in a Wider Europe
This article addresses some implications for gender equality and gender policy at European and national levels of transformations in family, economy and polity, which challenge gender regimes across Europe. Women's labour market participation in the west and the collapse of communism in the east have undermined the systems and assumptions of western male breadwinner and dual worker models of central and eastern Europe. Political reworking of the …
Social Policy
No-one can hope to understand the workings of the welfare state without first appreciating women's part in it. In the past decade the significance of the gendering of welfare states has become widely accepted, extensively charted in research, and more systematically theorized. Building on her earlier work, in Social Policy: A New Feminist Analysis Gillian Pascall confronts the challenges and outlines the developments that have taken place during …
Changing housing policy
Domestic violence has risen up the political agenda, as women's action has inspired changes in police, social work and legal practice. At the same time, one of the oldest pieces of legislation that protected women from violence - the Homeless Persons Act of 1977 - has been transmuted into the Housing Act of 1996. This legislation was introduced by a Conservative government, which was anxious to reduce the rights of homeless people to secure perma…
Gender and social policy
How are the distinctive gender regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union changing? What is the impact of the transition - and especially of the loss of state expenditure and state legitimacy - on women as paid workers, partners/wives, mothers, carers and citizens? Have women become more familialized as a result of transition processes? The Monee statistical database of 27 countries, and policy questionnaires to 12, show gr…
Women in Banking Careers-a Science of Muddling Through
How can we understand women's typically incremental approach to career, which defies the goal-oriented career-building logic of management culture? A qualitative study of 40 women in banking explored this issue with 20 clerical workers and 20 managers. In the context of banking policies for equal opportunities, career breaks, management trainee schemes, some respondents described career goals and development in traditional terms, but most acknowl…
UK family policy in the 1990s
New Labour thinking on the family is discussed within a comparative analysis of the treatment of the family in different Welfare States. The continuity with policy thinking under the Thatcher and Major Governments is demonstrated and questions raised about the extent to which a change of administration has changed or intensified the thrust of the policy. In certain respects, New Labour's approaches to the family are more reminiscent of the old So…
Jobs for the girls? Change and continuity for women in high street banks
Banks have significantly changed their public policies about women’s access to management, to include career breaks and job sharing, with recruitment and promotion policies claiming equal opportunity for men and women. But has there been a revolution on the high street? A qualitative study of 40 women in banking explored questions of change and continuity with 20 clerical workers and 20 managers. From their perspective, men’s power in higher mana…
Independent Living
In what ways is independent living for young adults with disabilities compromised by violence and its threat? A qualitative study of 42 young adults with severe physical disabilities explored their perceptions and concerns about independent living, access to services and the meeting of needs. Young women especially experienced difficulties about leaving home, because of their own and their parents' fears about vulnerability; some who did leave ho…
Women and the Family in the British Welfare State
This paper reviews the moral agenda of Thatcherism, in terms of maintaining traditional family structures, family roles and family responsibilities for economic support and personal care of family members. It asks to what extent and in what ways this agenda was promoted during the eighteen years of Conservative rule; to what extent contradictory forces within Thatcherism and elsewhere undermined this agenda; and what have been the consequences fo…
Social policy
Women and homelessness
Proposals to reverse homelessness legislation dating from 1977 are contained in a Consultation Paper (DOE, 1994a) and Housing White Paper (HMSO, 1995). These stem from concerns about ‘abuse’ by lone mothers. The two articles published here view the proposed changes as issues of women's housing access, in particular lone mothers and women experiencing domestic violence. Among those currently statutorily homeless, 43 per cent are lone mothers; most…
Women and homelessness
Proposals to reverse homelessness legislation dating from 1977 are contained in a Consultation Paper (DOE, 1994a) and Housing White Paper (HMSO, 1995). These stem from concerns about ‘abuse' by lone mothers. The two articles published view the proposed changes as issues of women's housing access, in particular lone mothers and women experiencing domestic violence. Among those currently statutorily homeless, 43 per cent are lone mothers; most have…
Individualism, self‐evaluation and self‐fulfilment in the experience of mature women students
This article explores the responses of 43 mature women students to questions about their experience of higher education. All were interviewed whilst students and 23 were interviewed again almost 10 years later. The responses discussed here were not to questions about practical educational and personal problems which mature students encounter (important though these are), but to questions about the way their experience of higher education, and sub…
Gender and social policy
How are the distinctive gender regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union changing? What is the impact of the transition - and especially of the loss of state expenditure and state legitimacy - on women as paid workers, partners/wives, mothers, carers and citizens? Have women become more familialized as a result of transition processes? The Monee statistical database of 27 countries, and policy questionnaires to 12, show gr…
Emerging Gender Regimes and Policies for Gender Equality in a Wider Europe
This article addresses some implications for gender equality and gender policy at European and national levels of transformations in family, economy and polity, which challenge gender regimes across Europe. Women's labour market participation in the west and the collapse of communism in the east have undermined the systems and assumptions of western male breadwinner and dual worker models of central and eastern Europe. Political reworking of the …
Work–family policies, participation, and practices
This paper asks about social policies for fathers' participation in childcare in Europe, and fathers' work–family reconciliation practices and ideals, with special reference to the UK. In some European countries, especially Sweden, reform has given fathers non-transferable rights to parental leave. Might such innovations enhance UK men's contribution to childcare? In the UK, gender inequalities in policy are stark: parental leave systems assume –…
Innovative Social Policies
We investigated innovative social policies drawn from the European arena — universal systems of childcare, a shorter working week and shared parental leave — asking about their relevance to the work–life balance of low‐waged coupled mothers in England. While in principle the policy environment has shifted from assumptions of a male breadwinner to dual earners, in practice severe constraints on mothers' labour market attachment bring women half th…
Gender Equality in Time
Policies concerning time use are crucial to parents' experiences of paid and unpaid work and the reconciliation of work and family life. In heterosexual-couple households, gender inequalities in the distribution of paid work and care, working hours, and responsibility for children's schedules mean that mothers experience pressure on time and their ability to work, care, and manage households. Via qualitative interviews conducted in 2005–6, this c…
A Confucian War over Childcare? Practice and Policy in Childcare and Their Implications for Understanding the Korean Gender Regime
We ask about the development of childcare policies in Korea and what these mean for our understanding of the gender assumptions of Korean governments. Women's labour market participation has been increasing rapidly, with married women now much more likely to be in the labour market. The provision and regulation around support for women's employment, and especially for mothers’ employment, is a key issue and problem for Korean women and for govern…
Independent Living
In what ways is independent living for young adults with disabilities compromised by violence and its threat? A qualitative study of 42 young adults with severe physical disabilities explored their perceptions and concerns about independent living, access to services and the meeting of needs. Young women especially experienced difficulties about leaving home, because of their own and their parents' fears about vulnerability; some who did leave ho…
Disability and Transition to Adulthood
What enables young people with significant impairments to make the transition to adulthood? Becoming householders, finding work, becoming parents, feeling included as citizens: these are all more challenging in the context of housing needs, a discriminatory labour market, the need for personal assistance and transport. Our study interviewed a group of 31 young adults in receipt of disability living allowance, who had jobs and independent househol…
Individualism, self‐evaluation and self‐fulfilment in the experience of mature women students
This article explores the responses of 43 mature women students to questions about their experience of higher education. All were interviewed whilst students and 23 were interviewed again almost 10 years later. The responses discussed here were not to questions about practical educational and personal problems which mature students encounter (important though these are), but to questions about the way their experience of higher education, and sub…
Women in Banking Careers-a Science of Muddling Through
How can we understand women's typically incremental approach to career, which defies the goal-oriented career-building logic of management culture? A qualitative study of 40 women in banking explored this issue with 20 clerical workers and 20 managers. In the context of banking policies for equal opportunities, career breaks, management trainee schemes, some respondents described career goals and development in traditional terms, but most acknowl…
Women and the Family in the British Welfare State
This paper reviews the moral agenda of Thatcherism, in terms of maintaining traditional family structures, family roles and family responsibilities for economic support and personal care of family members. It asks to what extent and in what ways this agenda was promoted during the eighteen years of Conservative rule; to what extent contradictory forces within Thatcherism and elsewhere undermined this agenda; and what have been the consequences fo…
Education and Domesticity
This paper explores the relationship between education and domesticity within two different contexts. The first is the theoretical literature about the reproduction of domesticity within the education system — which in various ways suggests that the education of girls and women leads them towards domestic roles and low paid work. The second context is a study of mature women students, in which respondents saw education as leading them away from t…
Women and homelessness
Proposals to reverse homelessness legislation dating from 1977 are contained in a Consultation Paper (DOE, 1994a) and Housing White Paper (HMSO, 1995). These stem from concerns about ‘abuse’ by lone mothers. The two articles published here view the proposed changes as issues of women's housing access, in particular lone mothers and women experiencing domestic violence. Among those currently statutorily homeless, 43 per cent are lone mothers; most…
Women and homelessness
Proposals to reverse homelessness legislation dating from 1977 are contained in a Consultation Paper (DOE, 1994a) and Housing White Paper (HMSO, 1995). These stem from concerns about ‘abuse' by lone mothers. The two articles published view the proposed changes as issues of women's housing access, in particular lone mothers and women experiencing domestic violence. Among those currently statutorily homeless, 43 per cent are lone mothers; most have…
Education and Domesticity
This paper explores the relationship between education and domesticity within two different contexts. The first is the theoretical literature about the reproduction of domesticity within the education system — which in various ways suggests that the education of girls and women leads them towards domestic roles and low paid work. The second context is a study of mature women students, in which respondents saw education as leading them away from t…
Individualism, self‐evaluation and self‐fulfilment in the experience of mature women students
This article explores the responses of 43 mature women students to questions about their experience of higher education. All were interviewed whilst students and 23 were interviewed again almost 10 years later. The responses discussed here were not to questions about practical educational and personal problems which mature students encounter (important though these are), but to questions about the way their experience of higher education, and sub…
Women and homelessness
Proposals to reverse homelessness legislation dating from 1977 are contained in a Consultation Paper (DOE, 1994a) and Housing White Paper (HMSO, 1995). These stem from concerns about ‘abuse’ by lone mothers. The two articles published here view the proposed changes as issues of women's housing access, in particular lone mothers and women experiencing domestic violence. Among those currently statutorily homeless, 43 per cent are lone mothers; most…
Women and homelessness
Proposals to reverse homelessness legislation dating from 1977 are contained in a Consultation Paper (DOE, 1994a) and Housing White Paper (HMSO, 1995). These stem from concerns about ‘abuse' by lone mothers. The two articles published view the proposed changes as issues of women's housing access, in particular lone mothers and women experiencing domestic violence. Among those currently statutorily homeless, 43 per cent are lone mothers; most have…
Women and the Family in the British Welfare State
This paper reviews the moral agenda of Thatcherism, in terms of maintaining traditional family structures, family roles and family responsibilities for economic support and personal care of family members. It asks to what extent and in what ways this agenda was promoted during the eighteen years of Conservative rule; to what extent contradictory forces within Thatcherism and elsewhere undermined this agenda; and what have been the consequences fo…
Social policy
Jobs for the girls? Change and continuity for women in high street banks
Banks have significantly changed their public policies about women’s access to management, to include career breaks and job sharing, with recruitment and promotion policies claiming equal opportunity for men and women. But has there been a revolution on the high street? A qualitative study of 40 women in banking explored questions of change and continuity with 20 clerical workers and 20 managers. From their perspective, men’s power in higher mana…
Independent Living
In what ways is independent living for young adults with disabilities compromised by violence and its threat? A qualitative study of 42 young adults with severe physical disabilities explored their perceptions and concerns about independent living, access to services and the meeting of needs. Young women especially experienced difficulties about leaving home, because of their own and their parents' fears about vulnerability; some who did leave ho…
UK family policy in the 1990s
New Labour thinking on the family is discussed within a comparative analysis of the treatment of the family in different Welfare States. The continuity with policy thinking under the Thatcher and Major Governments is demonstrated and questions raised about the extent to which a change of administration has changed or intensified the thrust of the policy. In certain respects, New Labour's approaches to the family are more reminiscent of the old So…
Gender and social policy
How are the distinctive gender regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union changing? What is the impact of the transition - and especially of the loss of state expenditure and state legitimacy - on women as paid workers, partners/wives, mothers, carers and citizens? Have women become more familialized as a result of transition processes? The Monee statistical database of 27 countries, and policy questionnaires to 12, show gr…
Women in Banking Careers-a Science of Muddling Through
How can we understand women's typically incremental approach to career, which defies the goal-oriented career-building logic of management culture? A qualitative study of 40 women in banking explored this issue with 20 clerical workers and 20 managers. In the context of banking policies for equal opportunities, career breaks, management trainee schemes, some respondents described career goals and development in traditional terms, but most acknowl…
Changing housing policy
Domestic violence has risen up the political agenda, as women's action has inspired changes in police, social work and legal practice. At the same time, one of the oldest pieces of legislation that protected women from violence - the Homeless Persons Act of 1977 - has been transmuted into the Housing Act of 1996. This legislation was introduced by a Conservative government, which was anxious to reduce the rights of homeless people to secure perma…
Social Policy
No-one can hope to understand the workings of the welfare state without first appreciating women's part in it. In the past decade the significance of the gendering of welfare states has become widely accepted, extensively charted in research, and more systematically theorized. Building on her earlier work, in Social Policy: A New Feminist Analysis Gillian Pascall confronts the challenges and outlines the developments that have taken place during …
Disability and Transition to Adulthood
What enables young people with significant impairments to make the transition to adulthood? Becoming householders, finding work, becoming parents, feeling included as citizens: these are all more challenging in the context of housing needs, a discriminatory labour market, the need for personal assistance and transport. Our study interviewed a group of 31 young adults in receipt of disability living allowance, who had jobs and independent househol…
A Confucian War over Childcare? Practice and Policy in Childcare and Their Implications for Understanding the Korean Gender Regime
We ask about the development of childcare policies in Korea and what these mean for our understanding of the gender assumptions of Korean governments. Women's labour market participation has been increasing rapidly, with married women now much more likely to be in the labour market. The provision and regulation around support for women's employment, and especially for mothers’ employment, is a key issue and problem for Korean women and for govern…
Emerging Gender Regimes and Policies for Gender Equality in a Wider Europe
This article addresses some implications for gender equality and gender policy at European and national levels of transformations in family, economy and polity, which challenge gender regimes across Europe. Women's labour market participation in the west and the collapse of communism in the east have undermined the systems and assumptions of western male breadwinner and dual worker models of central and eastern Europe. Political reworking of the …
Gender regimes in transition in Central and Eastern Europe
Contents: Introduction: gender and the family under communism and after Gender regimes in Central and Eastern Europe Policy and parents in Poland Mothers and the state Mothers and their households Mothers and social policy Gender equality in the wider Europe Conclusion
Innovative Social Policies
We investigated innovative social policies drawn from the European arena — universal systems of childcare, a shorter working week and shared parental leave — asking about their relevance to the work–life balance of low‐waged coupled mothers in England. While in principle the policy environment has shifted from assumptions of a male breadwinner to dual earners, in practice severe constraints on mothers' labour market attachment bring women half th…
Gender Regimes in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
Work–family policies, participation, and practices
This paper asks about social policies for fathers' participation in childcare in Europe, and fathers' work–family reconciliation practices and ideals, with special reference to the UK. In some European countries, especially Sweden, reform has given fathers non-transferable rights to parental leave. Might such innovations enhance UK men's contribution to childcare? In the UK, gender inequalities in policy are stark: parental leave systems assume –…
Gender Equality in Time
Policies concerning time use are crucial to parents' experiences of paid and unpaid work and the reconciliation of work and family life. In heterosexual-couple households, gender inequalities in the distribution of paid work and care, working hours, and responsibility for children's schedules mean that mothers experience pressure on time and their ability to work, care, and manage households. Via qualitative interviews conducted in 2005–6, this c…
Gender equality in the welfare state?
Introduction Understanding Gender in welfare states Gendered power Gender in employment Gender care Gendered income Gendered time Conclusion.
International Encyclopedia of Social Policy
Gender and Welfare States in East Asia
Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, where Confucian culture is deeply embedded, through
Introduction
This book aims to uncover gender assumptions of welfare states that are very different from Western ones, and to understand women’s experience of welfare states across a range of East Asian countries. Gender inequalities in East Asian social policies are clearly important for women across East Asia, and yet they have had too little attention in the literature comparing welfare states. The comparative literature has largely been concerned with Wes…
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Welfare (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Politics (7 works)