Silke Staab
Biographic Data
| ID | 311935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silke Staab |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silke |
| FAMILY NAME | Staab |
| SIGNATURE | STAAB S |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Nations Research Institute for Social Development |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4228-6716 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
What Shapes Government Responsiveness to Violence Against Women During Crises? Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic
Framing Care in Global and Regional Policy Spaces
In the wake of COVID-19, several high-profile initiatives emerged at the global and regional level promoting greater attention to and investments in the care economy. This article locates the seemingly sudden breakthrough of the care agenda on a longer trajectory of feminist institutional advocacy in international organizations, drawing attention to the role of care policy entrepreneurs and the networks of feminist expertise they have tapped into…
Do governments account for gender when designing their social protection systems? Findings from an analysis of national social protection strategies
The negative impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on women's employment, care responsibilities, and access to services have motivated an unprecedented level of advocacy around strengthening national social protection systems from a gender perspective. Yet very little empirical evidence exists about what a gender‐responsive social protection system entails in practice. This paper addresses this gap through a comparative analysis of 52 national social …
Introduction: Covid-19: Lessons for gender-responsive recovery and transformation
Following a moving target on a global scale: Gender data collection during Covid-19
Don't Let Another Crisis Go to Waste: The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Imperative for a Paradigm shift
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how globalized, market-based economies critically depend on a foundation of nonmarket goods, services, and productive activities that interact with capitalist institutions and impact market economies. These findings, long argued by feminist economists, have profound implications for how we think about our economic futures. This paper shows how lessons from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic can inform how people think ab…
Institutional Change in Constrained Circumstances: Gender, Resistance, and Critical Actors in the Chilean Executive
Because gender equality actors rarely have sufficient power to create new institutions, this article asks how they can achieve positive gender change in constrained circumstances when the creation of new rules is not possible. Building on a feminist institutionalist approach to analyzing gendered institutional dynamics, power, and resistance, we open the "black box" of one executive: Michelle Bachelet's first presidency in Chile (2006-10). Using …
Rethinking social policy: A gender perspective from the developing world
Building on the twenty-first century imperative for social policy to embrace a global scope, the chapter advances a gendered perspective that speaks to the diverse experiences of women in the developing world while referencing some of the important conceptual breakthroughs made by feminist scholarship on welfare regimes. In doing so, it analyses what labour commodification, de-familialization and care mean in country contexts where labour markets…
Gender and the Politics of Gradual Change: Social Policy Reform and Innovation in Chile
Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care: Worlds Apart
1. Introduction: Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care: Worlds Apart? Shahra Razavi and Silke Staab Section I: Care's Place Re-Imagined 2. Democratic Care Politics in an Age of Limits Joan Tronto Section II: Shaping the Policy Agenda: Care in Advanced Industrialized Economies 3. Advanced Economy, Modern Welfare State and Traditional Care Regimes: The Case of Switzerland Mascha Madorin, Brigitte Schnegg and Nadia Baghdadi 4…
Maternalism, Male-Breadwinner Bias, and Market Reform: Historical Legacies and Current Reforms in Chilean Social Policy
Through an analysis of recent reforms in three policy areas in Chile-pensions, childcare services, and maternity/parental leave-the paper seeks to explore how equity-oriented reforms deal with the triple legacy of maternalism, male-breadwinner bias, and market reform. Recent studies of "new" social policies in Latin America have underlined the persistent strength of maternalist assumptions. Feminist research on new cash transfer programs, in part…
Putting Two and Two Together? Early Childhood Education, Mothers' Employment and Care Service Expansion in Chile and Mexico
In recent years, several middle-income countries, including Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, have increased the availability of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. These developments have received little scholarly attention so far, resulting in the (surely unintended) impression that Latin American social policy is tied to a familialist track, when in reality national and regional trends are more varied and complex. This article looks a…
Democracy in the Country but not in the Home? Religion, politics and women's rights in Chile
This article explores the influence of religious actors on the elaboration of two public policies that are key to the advancement of women's rights and have long formed part of the women's movement's agenda in Chile: the introduction of sexual education in secondary schools in the 1990s and the distribution of emergency contraception in the 2000s. Our analysis of how different actors-from a variety of ideological and power positions-have influenc…
Social Investment Policies in Chile and Latin America: Towards Equal Opportunities for Women and Children
Social investment ideas are increasingly permeating social and care policy-making in Latin America. In this article, I analyse a variety of instruments which have been used to 'invest in children' across a range of Latin American countries to then zoom in on Chile, where early childhood education and care have attained a prominent place on the welfare agenda in recent years. This policy interest materialised in 'Chile Grows With You', an integrat…
The Dual Discourse About Peruvian Domestic Workers in Santiago de Chile: Class, Race, and a Nationalist Project
This article examines the functions of the "dual discourse" about Peruvian migrant domestic workers in contemporary Santiago. A 2002 field study found that middle-class employers of Peruvian workers simultaneously praised them as superior workers and denigrated them as uneducated and uncivilized. While this response is not unique to Santiago, this study argues that it fulfilled particular ideological functions in this context. The praise served t…
Nanny politics: The dilemmas of working women's empowerment in Santiago, Chile
This article examines the new migration of Peruvian domestic workers into Santiago, Chile, where laws protecting the labor rights of household workers have recently been strengthened. Through field observations and interviews, we found that employers were disgruntled with Chilean workers who had begun to assert demands. Many of them preferred Peruvian workers, not because the labor was cheaper, but because foreign workers were more compelled to p…
Don't Let Another Crisis Go to Waste: The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Imperative for a Paradigm shift
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how globalized, market-based economies critically depend on a foundation of nonmarket goods, services, and productive activities that interact with capitalist institutions and impact market economies. These findings, long argued by feminist economists, have profound implications for how we think about our economic futures. This paper shows how lessons from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic can inform how people think ab…
Maternalism, Male-Breadwinner Bias, and Market Reform: Historical Legacies and Current Reforms in Chilean Social Policy
Through an analysis of recent reforms in three policy areas in Chile-pensions, childcare services, and maternity/parental leave-the paper seeks to explore how equity-oriented reforms deal with the triple legacy of maternalism, male-breadwinner bias, and market reform. Recent studies of "new" social policies in Latin America have underlined the persistent strength of maternalist assumptions. Feminist research on new cash transfer programs, in part…
The Dual Discourse About Peruvian Domestic Workers in Santiago de Chile: Class, Race, and a Nationalist Project
This article examines the functions of the "dual discourse" about Peruvian migrant domestic workers in contemporary Santiago. A 2002 field study found that middle-class employers of Peruvian workers simultaneously praised them as superior workers and denigrated them as uneducated and uncivilized. While this response is not unique to Santiago, this study argues that it fulfilled particular ideological functions in this context. The praise served t…
Social Investment Policies in Chile and Latin America: Towards Equal Opportunities for Women and Children
Social investment ideas are increasingly permeating social and care policy-making in Latin America. In this article, I analyse a variety of instruments which have been used to 'invest in children' across a range of Latin American countries to then zoom in on Chile, where early childhood education and care have attained a prominent place on the welfare agenda in recent years. This policy interest materialised in 'Chile Grows With You', an integrat…
Democracy in the Country but not in the Home? Religion, politics and women's rights in Chile
This article explores the influence of religious actors on the elaboration of two public policies that are key to the advancement of women's rights and have long formed part of the women's movement's agenda in Chile: the introduction of sexual education in secondary schools in the 1990s and the distribution of emergency contraception in the 2000s. Our analysis of how different actors-from a variety of ideological and power positions-have influenc…
Nanny politics: The dilemmas of working women's empowerment in Santiago, Chile
This article examines the new migration of Peruvian domestic workers into Santiago, Chile, where laws protecting the labor rights of household workers have recently been strengthened. Through field observations and interviews, we found that employers were disgruntled with Chilean workers who had begun to assert demands. Many of them preferred Peruvian workers, not because the labor was cheaper, but because foreign workers were more compelled to p…
Institutional Change in Constrained Circumstances: Gender, Resistance, and Critical Actors in the Chilean Executive
Because gender equality actors rarely have sufficient power to create new institutions, this article asks how they can achieve positive gender change in constrained circumstances when the creation of new rules is not possible. Building on a feminist institutionalist approach to analyzing gendered institutional dynamics, power, and resistance, we open the "black box" of one executive: Michelle Bachelet's first presidency in Chile (2006-10). Using …
Introduction: Covid-19: Lessons for gender-responsive recovery and transformation
Nanny politics: The dilemmas of working women's empowerment in Santiago, Chile
This article examines the new migration of Peruvian domestic workers into Santiago, Chile, where laws protecting the labor rights of household workers have recently been strengthened. Through field observations and interviews, we found that employers were disgruntled with Chilean workers who had begun to assert demands. Many of them preferred Peruvian workers, not because the labor was cheaper, but because foreign workers were more compelled to p…
The Dual Discourse About Peruvian Domestic Workers in Santiago de Chile: Class, Race, and a Nationalist Project
This article examines the functions of the "dual discourse" about Peruvian migrant domestic workers in contemporary Santiago. A 2002 field study found that middle-class employers of Peruvian workers simultaneously praised them as superior workers and denigrated them as uneducated and uncivilized. While this response is not unique to Santiago, this study argues that it fulfilled particular ideological functions in this context. The praise served t…
Democracy in the Country but not in the Home? Religion, politics and women's rights in Chile
This article explores the influence of religious actors on the elaboration of two public policies that are key to the advancement of women's rights and have long formed part of the women's movement's agenda in Chile: the introduction of sexual education in secondary schools in the 1990s and the distribution of emergency contraception in the 2000s. Our analysis of how different actors-from a variety of ideological and power positions-have influenc…
Social Investment Policies in Chile and Latin America: Towards Equal Opportunities for Women and Children
Social investment ideas are increasingly permeating social and care policy-making in Latin America. In this article, I analyse a variety of instruments which have been used to 'invest in children' across a range of Latin American countries to then zoom in on Chile, where early childhood education and care have attained a prominent place on the welfare agenda in recent years. This policy interest materialised in 'Chile Grows With You', an integrat…
Putting Two and Two Together? Early Childhood Education, Mothers' Employment and Care Service Expansion in Chile and Mexico
In recent years, several middle-income countries, including Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, have increased the availability of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. These developments have received little scholarly attention so far, resulting in the (surely unintended) impression that Latin American social policy is tied to a familialist track, when in reality national and regional trends are more varied and complex. This article looks a…
Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care: Worlds Apart
1. Introduction: Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care: Worlds Apart? Shahra Razavi and Silke Staab Section I: Care's Place Re-Imagined 2. Democratic Care Politics in an Age of Limits Joan Tronto Section II: Shaping the Policy Agenda: Care in Advanced Industrialized Economies 3. Advanced Economy, Modern Welfare State and Traditional Care Regimes: The Case of Switzerland Mascha Madorin, Brigitte Schnegg and Nadia Baghdadi 4…
Maternalism, Male-Breadwinner Bias, and Market Reform: Historical Legacies and Current Reforms in Chilean Social Policy
Through an analysis of recent reforms in three policy areas in Chile-pensions, childcare services, and maternity/parental leave-the paper seeks to explore how equity-oriented reforms deal with the triple legacy of maternalism, male-breadwinner bias, and market reform. Recent studies of "new" social policies in Latin America have underlined the persistent strength of maternalist assumptions. Feminist research on new cash transfer programs, in part…
Gender and the Politics of Gradual Change: Social Policy Reform and Innovation in Chile
Rethinking social policy: A gender perspective from the developing world
Building on the twenty-first century imperative for social policy to embrace a global scope, the chapter advances a gendered perspective that speaks to the diverse experiences of women in the developing world while referencing some of the important conceptual breakthroughs made by feminist scholarship on welfare regimes. In doing so, it analyses what labour commodification, de-familialization and care mean in country contexts where labour markets…
Institutional Change in Constrained Circumstances: Gender, Resistance, and Critical Actors in the Chilean Executive
Because gender equality actors rarely have sufficient power to create new institutions, this article asks how they can achieve positive gender change in constrained circumstances when the creation of new rules is not possible. Building on a feminist institutionalist approach to analyzing gendered institutional dynamics, power, and resistance, we open the "black box" of one executive: Michelle Bachelet's first presidency in Chile (2006-10). Using …
Don't Let Another Crisis Go to Waste: The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Imperative for a Paradigm shift
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how globalized, market-based economies critically depend on a foundation of nonmarket goods, services, and productive activities that interact with capitalist institutions and impact market economies. These findings, long argued by feminist economists, have profound implications for how we think about our economic futures. This paper shows how lessons from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic can inform how people think ab…
Introduction: Covid-19: Lessons for gender-responsive recovery and transformation
Following a moving target on a global scale: Gender data collection during Covid-19
Do governments account for gender when designing their social protection systems? Findings from an analysis of national social protection strategies
The negative impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on women's employment, care responsibilities, and access to services have motivated an unprecedented level of advocacy around strengthening national social protection systems from a gender perspective. Yet very little empirical evidence exists about what a gender‐responsive social protection system entails in practice. This paper addresses this gap through a comparative analysis of 52 national social …
Framing Care in Global and Regional Policy Spaces
In the wake of COVID-19, several high-profile initiatives emerged at the global and regional level promoting greater attention to and investments in the care economy. This article locates the seemingly sudden breakthrough of the care agenda on a longer trajectory of feminist institutional advocacy in international organizations, drawing attention to the role of care policy entrepreneurs and the networks of feminist expertise they have tapped into…
What Shapes Government Responsiveness to Violence Against Women During Crises? Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works)