Janet C Gornick
Biographic Data
| ID | 84597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet C Gornick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet C |
| FAMILY NAME | Gornick |
| SIGNATURE | GORNICK J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0715-2256 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1297 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Poverty Disparities and the Reconfiguration of Social Provisioning: White, Black, and Latino Single-Mother Families, 1996–2018
Changes in US social provisioning from 1996 to 2018 profoundly affected the well-being of single-mother families, with notable consequences for racial inequalities in poverty alleviation. Using an institutional approach to racial disparities alongside a sequence-independent decomposition analysis, we group policies and programs into five redistributive mechanisms—federal transfers, state transfers, federal income taxes, state income taxes, and fe…
Pushes and pulls of father leave policy reform: Unpacking divergent father leave reforms in the Czech Republic and South Korea
The development of father leave policies marks a critical step toward gender equality in family policy. Despite promising policy developments, father leave policies continue to face resistance and negative feedback from various stakeholders, constraining their development. Their implementation has exhibited considerable variation across countries, ranging from mere symbolic gestures to substantive reforms. This article provides a comprehensive fr…
Poverty Reduction through Federal and State Policy Mechanisms: Variation over Time and across the United States
The efficacy of the US antipoverty policy is shaped both by its reliance on categorical sorting and by its decentralized structure. To examine the implications of these features, this study introduces a novel disaggregation of poverty reduction instruments into four mechanisms: federal taxes and federal transfers (centralized) and state taxes and state transfers (decentralized). Using the Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic Sup…
Accounting for the Value of Unpaid Domestic Work: A Cross-National Study of Variation across Household Types
This article estimates the value of extended earnings—market earnings plus the imputed value of unpaid work—and assesses how this alternative measure affects the level and distribution of economic wellbeing within households of differing compositions. Prior research finds that excluding the value of unpaid work distorts conclusions about women’s contributions to household income and inequality more generally. Variation across household types has …
Work-family justice: Its Meanings and Its Implementation
It's an incredibly important moment to focus on work-family scholarship – and to consider research related to 'just' work and care in unsettling and challenging times. Against this backdrop, the 2022 WFRN theme was established. The conference gathered members from around the world toward building impactful scholarship for practices and policy. In this Voices piece, we draw upon WFRN presidential panelists' voices. The first plenary, 'The Meanings…
The Persistence of the Gender Earnings Gap: Cohort Trends and the Role of Education in Twelve Countries
Studying twelve countries over 30 years, we examine whether women's educational expansion has translated into a narrowing of the gender gap in earnings when including persons with zero earnings. As educational attainment is cohort-dependent, an Age-Period-Cohort analysis is most appropriate in our view. Using the micro data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database, we show that while, in terms of attainment of tertiary education, women hav…
Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth
Drawing a Line: Comparing the Estimation of Top Incomes between Tax Data and Household Survey Data
Single-Parent Families and Public Policy in High-Income Countries: Introduction to the Volume
single-parent families; U.S. policy; high-income countries; economic well-being; lesson drawing
Effective Policies for Single-Parent Families and Prospects for Policy Reforms in the United States: Concluding Reflections
This conclusion engages two questions catalyzed by the articles in this volume. First, which policies are effective in reducing economic hardship among single-parent families overall and minimizing disparities across subgroups? Second, what are the prospects for related reforms in the United States? We draw four lessons from the articles in this volume and from prior research about effective policy design: (1) work-family reconciliation policies …
Wealth accumulation and retirement preparedness in cross-national perspective: A gendered analysis of outcomes among single adults
Wealth is an increasingly important dimension of economic well-being and is attracting rising attention in discussions of social inequality. In this article, we compare – within and across countries – wealth outcomes, and link those to both employment-related factors and policy solutions that have the potential to improve wealth creation and retirement security for women. By constructing country-specific portraits of wealth outcomes and ‘retireme…
Pathways toward Inclusive Income Growth: A Comparative Decomposition of National Growth Profiles
Despite rising interest in income inequality, scholars remain divided over the mechanisms underlying inclusive income growth and how these mechanisms vary across countries. This study introduces the concept of national growth profiles, that is, the additive contribution of changes in taxes, transfers, composition, and other factors including market institutions to changes across a country's income distribution. We present a decomposition framewor…
Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries
This state-of-the-art volume presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citizens: economic inequality. While income and wealth inequality across all populations is the primary focus, the contributions to this book pay special attention to the middle class, a segment often not addressed in inequality literature. Written by leading scholars in the field of economic inequality, a…
The Consequences of Decentralization: Inequality in Safety Net Provision in the Post–Welfare Reform Era
Decentralized safety net programs provide much of the social provision in the US, yet the consequences for social provision have received remarkably limited attention. In this article, we examine cross-state inequality in social safety net provision from 1994 to 2014. We ask whether programs that are more decentralized in terms of policy design are more variable across states in terms of the generosity of benefits and inclusiveness of receipt and…
Redistributional Policy in Rich Countries: Institutions and Impacts in Nonelderly Households
We review research on institutions of redistribution operating in high-income countries. Focusing on the nonelderly, we invoke the concept of the household income package, which includes income from labor, from related households, and from the state. Accordingly, we assess three institutional arenas: predistribution (rules and regulations that govern paid work), private redistribution (interhousehold transfers), and conventional public redistribu…
Gender and Poverty
This article examines the link between gender and poverty. It begins with a discussion of selected theoretical perspectives that have informed the study of poverty, with emphasis on economic insufficiency, capabilities deprivation, and social exclusion as well as the feminization of poverty. It then considers key contributions to the empirical literature on poverty and gender, focusing on interdisciplinary studies that define poverty based on eco…
Tony Atkinson and His Legacy
Tony Atkinson and his Legacy
Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense, rejecting any sub‐field labelling of his interests and expertise, and he made contributions right across economics. His death on 1 January 2017 deprived the world of both an intellectual giant and a deeply com…
Luxembourg Income Study – response
Leave policies in challenging times: What have we learned? What lies ahead
This article reflects on the studies included in this special issue on leave policies during challenging economic times. It highlights three major conclusions: (1) the regime-type framework remains illuminating; (2) the recent period is characterized by resilience of leave provisions; and (3) persistent gender disparities in leave-taking continue to shape policy debates. Three recommendations are made for future lines of work: (1) adopt a life co…
Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries (Studies in Social Inequality)
Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries
This book presents original empirical research on economic inequality in affluent countries, using comparable data from two widely-recognized, high quality, data sources: the Luxembourg Income Study Database and the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database. Both of these publicly-accessible databases are housed at LIS, a cross-national data archive that is directed by the book's two Editors. The volume's seventeen empirical chapters explore change over t…
Child poverty in cross-national perspective: Lessons from the Luxembourg Income Study
The Time Divide in Cross-National Perspective: The Work Week, Education and Institutions That Matter
Prior empirical studies have found that American workers report longer hours than do workers in other highly industrialized countries, and that the highly educated report the longest hours relative to other educational levels. This paper analyzes disparities in working hours by education levels in 17 high- and middle-income countries to assess whether this finding holds cross-nationally, for both men and women. In contrast to many prior studies o…
Cross-national Variation in the Influence of Employment Hours on Child Care Time
Parental time investments in children are essential inputs in children’s present and future well-being. The ability of parents to make choices about child care time that are free from money and time constraints varies considerably, however, by employment status and country. We use nationally representative time diary data from nine countries with different gendered working time regimes to investigate how employment hours influence child care time…
Supporting the Employment of Mothers: Policy Variation Across Fourteen Welfare States
This article compares 14 OECD countries, as of the middle-to-late 1980s, with respect to their provision of policies that support moth ers' employment: parental leave, child care, and the scheduling of public education. Newly gathered data on 18 policy indicators are pre sented. The indicators are then standardized, weighted, and summed into indices. By differ entiating policies that affect maternal employ ment from family policies more generally…
The Incomplete Revolution: Adapting to Women's New Roles
Gender and Work in Germany: Before and After Reunification
New state and market arrangements were twice imposed on the residents of the eastern part of Germany, once when Germany was divided in 1949 and again when it was reunified in 1990; these changes produced a unique natural experiment concerning the effect of policies and institutions on the gendered nature of work. This review synthesizes research on gender equality in paid and unpaid work in East versus West Germany during the decades immediately …
Who cares? assessing generosity and gender equality in parental leave policy designs in 21 countries
Parental leave laws can support new parents in two complementary ways: by offering job-protected leave and by offering financial support during that leave. This study assesses the design of parental leave policies operating in 21 high-income countries. Specifically, the study analyzes how these countries vary with respect to the generosity of their parental leave policies; the extent to which their policy designs are gender egalitarian; and the w…
Creating Gender Egalitarian Societies: An Agenda for Reform
In this article, we describe the social and economic changes that have contributed to contemporary problems of work-family conflict, gender inequality, and risks to children's healthy development. We draw on feminist welfare state scholarship to outline an institutional arrangement that would support an earner-carer society -a social arrangement in which women and men engage symmetrically in paid work and unpaid caregiving and where young childre…
Gender, the Welfare State, and Public Employment: A Comparative Study of Seven Industrialized Countries
This paper explores the influence of government employment on the gender gap in earnings in seven countries, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS).We raise and answer four questions about the effects of public sector employment on the gender gap in earnings.(1) Do governments offer jobs that are comparatively high paying?(2) Does public employment benefit some workers, such as low-paid workers, more than others?(3) Are public sector e…
It's All about Control: Worker Control over Schedule and Hours in Cross-National Context
Workers' ability to control their work schedules and hours varies significantly among industrialized countries. We integrate and extend prior research from a variety of literatures to examine antecedents of control and worker outcomes. Using hierarchical linear modeling and data for 21 countries from the 1997 ISSP Work Orientations Survey supplemented with national indicators developed from a variety of sources, we find that control is associated…
Working for less? Women's part-time wage penalties across countries
This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s. Using comparable micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), for Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US, the paper first assesses cross-national variation in the direction, magnitude, and composition of the part-time/full-time wage differential. Then it analyzes variations across these countries in occupational se…
Cross-national Variation in the Influence of Employment Hours on Child Care Time
Parental time investments in children are essential inputs in children’s present and future well-being. The ability of parents to make choices about child care time that are free from money and time constraints varies considerably, however, by employment status and country. We use nationally representative time diary data from nine countries with different gendered working time regimes to investigate how employment hours influence child care time…
Packaging Support for Low‐Income Families: Policy Variation across the United States
This paper addresses a gap in state‐level comparative social policy research by analyzing policies that support low‐income families with children. Variation in state policy “packages” is measured by considering three characteristics of 11 social programs. Individual measures of policy are found to be weakly and inconsistently inter‐correlated at the state level, but when cluster analysis is used to analyze multiple dimensions simultaneously, five…
The Consequences of Decentralization: Inequality in Safety Net Provision in the Post–Welfare Reform Era
Decentralized safety net programs provide much of the social provision in the US, yet the consequences for social provision have received remarkably limited attention. In this article, we examine cross-state inequality in social safety net provision from 1994 to 2014. We ask whether programs that are more decentralized in terms of policy design are more variable across states in terms of the generosity of benefits and inclusiveness of receipt and…
Child poverty in cross-national perspective: Lessons from the Luxembourg Income Study
A Cross-National Analysis of the Wages of Part-Time Workers: Evidence from the United States, The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia
We analyse wage differentials between part-time and full-time workers in four English-speaking countries, using cross-nationally comparable data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). An analysis of gross wage gaps (that is, unadjusted for human capital- and job-related differences) reveals that women part-time workers earn significantly less per hour than do their full-time counter-parts in all of these countries. In an analysis of net wage gap…
Redistributional Policy in Rich Countries: Institutions and Impacts in Nonelderly Households
We review research on institutions of redistribution operating in high-income countries. Focusing on the nonelderly, we invoke the concept of the household income package, which includes income from labor, from related households, and from the state. Accordingly, we assess three institutional arenas: predistribution (rules and regulations that govern paid work), private redistribution (interhousehold transfers), and conventional public redistribu…
The regulation of working time as work-family reconciliation policy: Comparing Europe, Japan, and the United States
This article compares working time policies in eight European countries, Japan, and the US, specifically policies that embody three goals: (1) reducing the full-time working week to less than the traditional standard of 40 hours; (2) guaranteeing workers an adequate number of paid days, annually, away from the workplace; and (3) raising the quality and availability of voluntary part-time work. While working time policies can help to free up paren…
Hours of Paid Work in Dual-Earner Couples: The United States in Cross-National Perspective
In this paper we examine the hours of paid work of husbands and wives in 10 industrialized countries, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study. We present results on the average hours of paid work put in jointly by couples, on the proportion working very long weekly hours, and on gender equality in working time within families. The United States ranks at or near the top on most indicators of working time for couples, because of (1) a high prop…
Pathways toward Inclusive Income Growth: A Comparative Decomposition of National Growth Profiles
Despite rising interest in income inequality, scholars remain divided over the mechanisms underlying inclusive income growth and how these mechanisms vary across countries. This study introduces the concept of national growth profiles, that is, the additive contribution of changes in taxes, transfers, composition, and other factors including market institutions to changes across a country's income distribution. We present a decomposition framewor…
More, Less, or More of the Same? Trends in State Social Welfare Policy in the 1990s
Major reforms to cash assistance and other welfare programs in the 1990s raise questions about whether states gained new flexibility in setting social policies, and, if so, how they exercised this flexibility. We extend prior research on state social policy by examining trends during the middle to late 1990s in five areas of cash or near-cash policy affecting the economic security of low-income families. We find evidence of substantial change in …
The Income and Wealth Packages of Older Women in Cross-National Perspective
Further research is needed to identify the most vulnerable subgroups, to integrate analyses of necessary expenditures, and to assess policy implications
Women's economic outcomes, gender inequality and public policy: Findings from the Luxembourg Income Study
In the past two decades, many researchers have used the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data to analyse women's economic status, or economic gender inequality, across the industrialized countries. Researchers concerned with labour market outcomes have concluded that: (i) women's labour market status lags men's in nearly every LIS country and time period; (ii) motherhood is a consequential factor nearly everywhere; while parenthood typically has lit…
Income, Assets, and Poverty: Older Women in Comparative Perspective
We analyze the economic well‐being of older women in cross‐national perspective, comparing the United States with four other high‐income countries: the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and Sweden. We report some of the first findings based on microdata from a new source, the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS). The LWS, a project within the larger Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), is a database containing harmonized wealth datasets from a number of industr…
Changing Political Opportunity: The Anti-Rape Movement and Public Policy
Both the legal definition of rape and the social responses to it have changed dramatically over the last twenty-five years. The sorts of assaults classified as criminal, the willingness of women who have been raped to turn to the criminal justice system, the rules of prosecution, and the penalties imposed on those found guilty have all been the explicit subjects of public debates initiated in the early 1970s by activists who broke the silence of …
Public or Private Responsibility? Early Childhood Education and Care, Inequality, and the Welfare State
Although early childhood education and care provision (ECEC) is increasing in all the industrialized welfare states, institutional arrangements for providing and financing services still vary substantially across countries at similar levels of economic development. These policies have potentially important implications for the reduction of income and labor market inequalities. In this paper we document variation in the institutional arrangements …
Lesson‐drawing in family policy: Media reports and empirical evidence about European developments
Since 1980, the U.S. press has painted a vivid picture of widespread welfare state dismantling in Europe. Yet our analysis of social expenditures in 14 European countries from 1980–1995 finds a pattern of resilience and, with respect to family benefits, a pattern of expansion. Our review of qualitative research on policy reforms upholds the expenditure‐based findings. We conclude that U.S. media misrepresentation of social welfare developments in…
More Alike than Different: Revisiting the Long-Term Prospects for Developing "European-Style" Work/Family Policies in the United States
American and European parents experience common problems but sharply different social policy supports. American advocates often argue that Europe's work/family policies would benefit American families and mitigate gender inequality. Other observers argue that the US will never adopt European-style policies because they are inconsistent with American political culture and preferences, infeasible given demographic and labor market conditions, and h…
A Cross-National Analysis of the Wages of Part-Time Workers: Evidence from the United States, The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia
We analyse wage differentials between part-time and full-time workers in four English-speaking countries, using cross-nationally comparable data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). An analysis of gross wage gaps (that is, unadjusted for human capital- and job-related differences) reveals that women part-time workers earn significantly less per hour than do their full-time counter-parts in all of these countries. In an analysis of net wage gap…
Supporting the Employment of Mothers: Policy Variation Across Fourteen Welfare States
This article compares 14 OECD countries, as of the middle-to-late 1980s, with respect to their provision of policies that support moth ers' employment: parental leave, child care, and the scheduling of public education. Newly gathered data on 18 policy indicators are pre sented. The indicators are then standardized, weighted, and summed into indices. By differ entiating policies that affect maternal employ ment from family policies more generally…
Changing Political Opportunity: The Anti-Rape Movement and Public Policy
Both the legal definition of rape and the social responses to it have changed dramatically over the last twenty-five years. The sorts of assaults classified as criminal, the willingness of women who have been raped to turn to the criminal justice system, the rules of prosecution, and the penalties imposed on those found guilty have all been the explicit subjects of public debates initiated in the early 1970s by activists who broke the silence of …
Gender, the Welfare State, and Public Employment: A Comparative Study of Seven Industrialized Countries
This paper explores the influence of government employment on the gender gap in earnings in seven countries, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS).We raise and answer four questions about the effects of public sector employment on the gender gap in earnings.(1) Do governments offer jobs that are comparatively high paying?(2) Does public employment benefit some workers, such as low-paid workers, more than others?(3) Are public sector e…
Public Childcare, Parental Leave, and Employment
Analyses the effects of parental leave and public childcare on mothers’ employment across 14 countries, including the 12 countries discussed in the first 3 chapters. The results suggest that policy configurations influence the patterns of employment of mothers. The analysis of national policy performance also reveals a cluster of countries—Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, and Sweden—that cut across welfare state regimes.
Gender Equality in the Labour Market
The topic of this chapter is women's access to paid work and its impact on their economic resources compared to men in general and within the family. It presents a cross‐national portrait of gender inequality in the labour market in the early 1990s in 15 countries. Initially, the author focuses on labour market attachment (full‐time or part‐time work) and the earnings of working‐age women as a whole; subsequently, the analysis turns to married wo…
Warmth of the Welcome: The Social Causes of Economic Success for Immigrants in Different Nations and Cities
Lesson‐drawing in family policy: Media reports and empirical evidence about European developments
Since 1980, the U.S. press has painted a vivid picture of widespread welfare state dismantling in Europe. Yet our analysis of social expenditures in 14 European countries from 1980–1995 finds a pattern of resilience and, with respect to family benefits, a pattern of expansion. Our review of qualitative research on policy reforms upholds the expenditure‐based findings. We conclude that U.S. media misrepresentation of social welfare developments in…
Packaging Support for Low‐Income Families: Policy Variation across the United States
This paper addresses a gap in state‐level comparative social policy research by analyzing policies that support low‐income families with children. Variation in state policy “packages” is measured by considering three characteristics of 11 social programs. Individual measures of policy are found to be weakly and inconsistently inter‐correlated at the state level, but when cluster analysis is used to analyze multiple dimensions simultaneously, five…
Packaging Support for Low‐Income Families: Policy Variation across the United States
This paper addresses a gap in state-level comparative social policy research by analyzing policies that support low-income families with children. Variation in state policy “packages” is measured by considering three characteristics of 11 social programs. Individual measures of policy are found to be weakly and inconsistently inter-correlated at the state level, but when cluster analysis is used to analyze multiple dimensions simultaneously, five…
Hours of Paid Work in Dual-Earner Couples: The United States in Cross-National Perspective
In this paper we examine the hours of paid work of husbands and wives in 10 industrialized countries, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study. We present results on the average hours of paid work put in jointly by couples, on the proportion working very long weekly hours, and on gender equality in working time within families. The United States ranks at or near the top on most indicators of working time for couples, because of (1) a high prop…
More, Less, or More of the Same? Trends in State Social Welfare Policy in the 1990s
Major reforms to cash assistance and other welfare programs in the 1990s raise questions about whether states gained new flexibility in setting social policies, and, if so, how they exercised this flexibility. We extend prior research on state social policy by examining trends during the middle to late 1990s in five areas of cash or near-cash policy affecting the economic security of low-income families. We find evidence of substantial change in …
Welfare Regimes in Relation to Paid Work and Care
Public or Private Responsibility? Early Childhood Education and Care, Inequality, and the Welfare State
Although early childhood education and care provision (ECEC) is increasing in all the industrialized welfare states, institutional arrangements for providing and financing services still vary substantially across countries at similar levels of economic development. These policies have potentially important implications for the reduction of income and labor market inequalities. In this paper we document variation in the institutional arrangements …
More Alike than Different: Revisiting the Long-Term Prospects for Developing "European-Style" Work/Family Policies in the United States
American and European parents experience common problems but sharply different social policy supports. American advocates often argue that Europe's work/family policies would benefit American families and mitigate gender inequality. Other observers argue that the US will never adopt European-style policies because they are inconsistent with American political culture and preferences, infeasible given demographic and labor market conditions, and h…
Women's economic outcomes, gender inequality and public policy: Findings from the Luxembourg Income Study
In the past two decades, many researchers have used the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data to analyse women's economic status, or economic gender inequality, across the industrialized countries. Researchers concerned with labour market outcomes have concluded that: (i) women's labour market status lags men's in nearly every LIS country and time period; (ii) motherhood is a consequential factor nearly everywhere; while parenthood typically has lit…
Industrial Relations, Politics, and Government
Gender and Work in Germany: Before and After Reunification
New state and market arrangements were twice imposed on the residents of the eastern part of Germany, once when Germany was divided in 1949 and again when it was reunified in 1990; these changes produced a unique natural experiment concerning the effect of policies and institutions on the gendered nature of work. This review synthesizes research on gender equality in paid and unpaid work in East versus West Germany during the decades immediately …
American Workers in Cross-National Perspective
The Moral Economy of Welfare States: Britain and Germany Compared
The Moral Economy of Welfare States: Britain and Germany Compared. By Steffen Mau. New York: Routledge, 2003. 248p. $114.95. As postwar welfare state accords unraveled in the 1970s, welfare state scholarship grew rapidly, with most scholars aiming to identify the determinants of policy variation and growth. Scholars typically debated the relative roles of economic and demographic factors, political configurations, and national attitudes and prefe…
The regulation of working time as work-family reconciliation policy: Comparing Europe, Japan, and the United States
This article compares working time policies in eight European countries, Japan, and the US, specifically policies that embody three goals: (1) reducing the full-time working week to less than the traditional standard of 40 hours; (2) guaranteeing workers an adequate number of paid days, annually, away from the workplace; and (3) raising the quality and availability of voluntary part-time work. While working time policies can help to free up paren…
Welfare Regimes in Relation to Paid Work and Care: A View from the United States on Social Protection in the European Countries
Ideologies on work, caregiving, family, and gender relations vary across countries and over time. Contemporary perspectives typically stress child well-being; women’s caregiving burden; or gender equality; the tensions among these can be resolved in societies that combine intensive parental time for children with gender-egalitarian divisions of labor. Social and labor market policies that would support such a society are the most developed in the…
Entre travail rémunéré et responsabilités familiales, le rôle des États providence: Un regard américain sur la prise en compte du care dans les politiques sociales européennes
Les idéologies sur le travail, la prise en charge des enfants, la famille et les relations hommes-femmes sont différentes selon les pays et les époques. Les approches contemporaines se caractérisent par l'importance accordée au bien-être de l'enfant, aux responsabilités familiales assumées par les femmes ou à l'égalité hommes-femmes. Pour résoudre les contradictions entre ces trois priorités, la société doit à la fois permettre aux parents de con…
Working for less? Women's part-time wage penalties across countries
This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s. Using comparable micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), for Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US, the paper first assesses cross-national variation in the direction, magnitude, and composition of the part-time/full-time wage differential. Then it analyzes variations across these countries in occupational se…
Creating Gender Egalitarian Societies: An Agenda for Reform
In this article, we describe the social and economic changes that have contributed to contemporary problems of work-family conflict, gender inequality, and risks to children's healthy development. We draw on feminist welfare state scholarship to outline an institutional arrangement that would support an earner-carer society -a social arrangement in which women and men engage symmetrically in paid work and unpaid caregiving and where young childre…
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