Trudie Knijn
Biographic Data
| ID | 93499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trudie Knijn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trudie |
| FAMILY NAME | Knijn |
| SIGNATURE | KNIJN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7248-9170 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 510 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
European Union Youth Policy: Moving Beyond Mobility
Many young adult Europeans face difficult times. High unemployment rates, flexible labour markets, housing shortages, and low minimum wages can limit young adults' current and future development. European Union (EU) policy could encourage Member States to counter these circumstances, offer resources to support Member States in improving the lives of young adults, or at least recommend solutions. We aim to study the EU's 2010–2020 social policy ap…
Gendered familialism in a Mediterranean context: Women’s labor market participation and early childhood education and care in Turkey
This article explores the relationship between women’s labor market participation and early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Turkey within a broader Mediterranean context. Since the 1990s, there have been significant changes in the familialist models in the Mediterranean region driven by women’s increased labor market participation and the expansion of ECEC services. The transformations in the region have unveiled a significant link between…
Justice and Vulnerability in Europe: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Justice and Vulnerability in Europe contributes to the understanding of justice in Europe from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. It shows that Europe is falling short of its ideals and justice-related ambitions by repeatedly failing its most vulnerable populations.
Improving HIV prevention programs: The role of identity in shaping healthy sexual behavior of rural adolescents in South Africa
A large body of literature highlights the role of culture and identity in how individuals manage and maintain health. Disappointingly there was no statistically significant decline in HIV prevalence in the 15–24 years age group in South Africa since 2007, Millennium Development Goal 6 indicator. This warrants a new approach to youth HIV prevention, which considers identity and culture, in male-dominant environments. We used identity-based motivat…
Parenting Support in the Dutch ‘Participation Society’
This article focuses on ‘the turn to parenting’ in the Netherlands and embeds it in a major reform called ‘transition and transformation’. While support for parenting by way of public healthcare and denominational family care and advice has a long tradition in the Netherlands, the field gained new importance in the 1990s under the influence of medical and psychological ‘scientification’ and the introduction of evidence-based methods. Current refo…
Performance-based contracting in home-care work in The Netherlands: Professionalism under pressure
Our aim was to improve the understanding of the relationships between performance-based contracting, management supportiveness and professionalism in home care. Using path analysis, this article explores the relationships between home-care workers' perceptions of management support, implementation of performance-based contracting (i.e. use of strict time registration rules and cost-efficiency measures) and autonomy and intrinsic job satisfaction.…
Social capital and job search behaviour of long-term welfare recipients
Purpose – Long-term welfare recipients in the Netherlands are either long-term unemployed or part-time employed in jobs that generate incomes below the subsistence level. The question is whether reintegration policies aiming at their return to – a fulltime – job should consider individual social network factors besides psychological and human capital factors. The purpose of this paper is to investigate welfare recipients’ job search behaviour, in…
Continuity and Change: Comparative Case Study of Hospital and Home Care Governance in The Netherlands
This article aims to understand the evolution of health care governance in the Dutch hospital and home care sector. We pay particular attention to how institutionalized governance structures shape policy reform. Professionally-dominated governance structures are likely to continue to exist to some degree, even when new policy measures seek to introduce hierarchical control or market mechanisms in order to restrict professional autonomy. In contra…
Children First? Changing Attitudes Toward the Primacy of Children in Five European Countries
Parenting support is a new policy field, directed toward teaching parents how to assume their role. Its foundations are embedded in a child-centered social investment approach, which is becoming dominant in Western European welfare states. This article aims at exploring the extent to which ideas underlying these policies are coherent with individual attitudes toward children, parents, their relationship and their change over time. We analyze how …
Child Support Grants in South Africa: A Pathway to Women's Empowerment and Child Well-being
Despite the growth of cash transfers to reduce poverty, promote child and family well-being and women's empowerment, the gender dynamics and impact of social protection remains poorly understood. We hypothesise that poor female care-givers receiving a cash transfer for their children are better able to contribute to the material and social well-being of their children than female care-givers who do not receive a cash transfer. This paper reports …
Child Protection Victims and the “Evil Institutions”
The Dutch child protection system has been the target of harsh criticism in recent decades. The legitimacy of child protection services seems to have eroded. In this article, we analyze this changing legitimacy of child protection against the background of declining parental authority and in relation to the disappearance of positive pedagogical ideologies and the mainly bureaucratic response of child protection agencies. Two recent inquiries in t…
Psychosocial Factors Predicting Job Search Behaviour of Long-Term Welfare Recipients in the Netherlands
In spite of active labour market policies, a considerable number of welfare recipients in the Netherlands are long-term unemployed. In order to investigate the job search behaviour of this group, we developed a model of job search behaviour, inspired by the theory of planned behaviour, expectancy value theory and self-determination theory Survey data relating to 193 individuals receiving welfare benefits for at least one year were collected. A mo…
Work and Care under Pressure: Care Arrangements across Europe
Work and Care Under Pressure Care Arrangements Across Europe: Care Arrangements Across Europe
Trudie Knijn, Claude Martin and Blanche Le Bihan Reconciling work and family life - or reaching a Work-Family Balance as it is called in recent literature (Guest, 2002; Frone, 2003; Abigail and Milner, 2003; Hantrais and Ackers, 2005; Van der Lippe, Jager and Kops, 2006; Van der Lippe and Peters, 2007; Lewis, 2009a; Hobson, 2011) – is at the core of the European social policy agenda as well as that of many member states. It has also been the subj…
Work, Family Policies and Transitions to Adulthood in Europe
This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household, with or without children, exploring questions such as what do
Partially Disabled Employees: Dealing with a Double Role in the Netherlands
In 2006 new social policy legislation was introduced in the Netherlands, under which employees with chronic health problems may be allocated a ‘double identity’, being assessed simultaneously as partly sick and partly able to work. Employees in this situation receive a proportion of disability benefit according to their assessed loss of earning capacity and are required to engage in paid work in order to earn an income over and above this. Our ce…
Introduction: Social Policy Change in a Transition Society – The Case of South Africa
Transferring HIV/Aids Related Healthcare from Non‐governmental Organizations to the Public Healthcare System in South Africa: Opportunities and Challenges
Almost two decades after the transition to a post‐apartheid regime, South Africa is still high‐ranking in the incidence of chronic diseases like tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, diabetes and hypertension. This article explores the transition from HIV/AIDS related healthcare offered by internationally supported non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) in rural areas to the inclusion of this healthcare into the public healthcare system. This transition is part…
Life Course Status and Exchanges of Support Between Young Adults and Parents
The authors investigated intergenerational support exchanges in relation to young adults' life course status. In a sample of 2,022 young adults (ages 18-34 years) in The Netherlands, single young adults reported receiving more advice from parents than married young adults, and those with children of their own received more practical support. Married young adults and young adults with children provided less support to parents than, respectively, s…
Changes in the regulation of responsibilities towards childcare needs in Italy and the Netherlands: Different timing, increasingly different approaches
This article comparatively analyses how the responsibilities towards childcare needs have been framed and addressed in Italy and the Netherlands following the increase in women’s labour market participation. According to the authors, the differing developments in these two countries partly disconfirm the thesis according to which facilitating family/work conciliation is at the heart of the new social policy paradigms in all Bismarckian welfare st…
Relatives as paid care-givers: How family carers experience payments for care
Payments for care, by which people in need of long-term care directly employ care workers, have been introduced in many European countries. In The Netherlands, care dependants are allowed to use these payments to hire relatives to perform care tasks. Care-givers who are employed by their relatives are in a hybrid position, because they are contracted as employees in the informal setting of a family home and its affective care relationships. This …
The ‘meaning’ of children in Dutch and German family policy
At the end of the 20th century, birth-rates had fallen below the replacement rate in many Western countries. Changing attitudes towards having children had resulted in very small families, even in childlessness, giving rise to the Vienna Institute of Demography analyzing EUROSTAT data on the most common reasons for Europeans between the ages of 18 and 39 being childless. Almost half of these young adults (48 per cent) said they did not want child…
Investing, Facilitating, or Individualizing the Reconciliation of Work and Family Life: Three Paradigms and Ambivalent Policies
Journal Article Investing, Facilitating, or Individualizing the Reconciliation of Work and Family Life: Three Paradigms and Ambivalent Policies Get access Trudie Knijn, Trudie Knijn E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Arnoud Smit Arnoud Smit Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volum…
Pension Reforms, Working Patterns and Gender Pension Gaps in Europe
European pension reforms are dominated by the principles of privatization and individualization. Privatizing and individualizing pension entitlements call for a redefinition of the responsibilities of states and individuals. Moreover, statutorily introducing individualization calls for equal opportunities to be guaranteed. However, the implementation of equal opportunities is a long way off because pension‐determining factors are still subject to…
Couples' decisions on having a first child: Comparing pathways to early and late parenthood
We investigate the decision-making process of having a first child, using theories on individualisation, lifestyle choices and negotiating partnerships as a starting point. We compare couples who had their first child at a relatively young age with tho
Gender and the Caring Dimension of Welfare States: Toward Inclusive Citizenship
Journal Article Gender and the Caring Dimension of Welfare States: Toward Inclusive Citizenship Get access TRUDIE KNIJN, TRUDIE KNIJN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MONIQUE KREMER MONIQUE KREMER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 4, Issue 3, Fall 1997, Pages 328–361, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfo…
Patterns of Development in Work/Family Reconciliation Policies for Parents in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK in the 2000s
Work/family reconciliation policies have increasingly become part of employment-led social policy at both EU and Member State levels. Given this trend, we expected to see more attention to policies that unequivocally promote women's employment: childcare provision and the promotion of flexible working, together with reform of leaves that permit labour market exit in order to care for children. Our examination of the nature of change in policy goa…
Intergenerational Contact and the Life Course Status of Young Adult Children
This study examined how the life course status of young adults-whether they have a romantic partner and whether they have children-is related to how often they have contact with their parents. Hypotheses were tested using recent data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study. The main sample included 1,911 young adults between the ages of 18 and 34. Results suggest that young adults' entrance into cohabitation and marriage is associated with less …
Investing, Facilitating, or Individualizing the Reconciliation of Work and Family Life: Three Paradigms and Ambivalent Policies
Journal Article Investing, Facilitating, or Individualizing the Reconciliation of Work and Family Life: Three Paradigms and Ambivalent Policies Get access Trudie Knijn, Trudie Knijn E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Arnoud Smit Arnoud Smit Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volum…
Life Course Status and Exchanges of Support Between Young Adults and Parents
The authors investigated intergenerational support exchanges in relation to young adults' life course status. In a sample of 2,022 young adults (ages 18-34 years) in The Netherlands, single young adults reported receiving more advice from parents than married young adults, and those with children of their own received more practical support. Married young adults and young adults with children provided less support to parents than, respectively, s…
Pension Reforms, Working Patterns and Gender Pension Gaps in Europe
European pension reforms are dominated by the principles of privatization and individualization. Privatizing and individualizing pension entitlements call for a redefinition of the responsibilities of states and individuals. Moreover, statutorily introducing individualization calls for equal opportunities to be guaranteed. However, the implementation of equal opportunities is a long way off because pension‐determining factors are still subject to…
Changes in the regulation of responsibilities towards childcare needs in Italy and the Netherlands: Different timing, increasingly different approaches
This article comparatively analyses how the responsibilities towards childcare needs have been framed and addressed in Italy and the Netherlands following the increase in women’s labour market participation. According to the authors, the differing developments in these two countries partly disconfirm the thesis according to which facilitating family/work conciliation is at the heart of the new social policy paradigms in all Bismarckian welfare st…
Parenting Support in the Dutch ‘Participation Society’
This article focuses on ‘the turn to parenting’ in the Netherlands and embeds it in a major reform called ‘transition and transformation’. While support for parenting by way of public healthcare and denominational family care and advice has a long tradition in the Netherlands, the field gained new importance in the 1990s under the influence of medical and psychological ‘scientification’ and the introduction of evidence-based methods. Current refo…
Activation as a Common Framework for Social Policies towards Lone Parents
This article compares recent social policy reforms in respect of lone‐parent families in three different national contexts: France, the Netherlands and the UK. In all three countries there is an increasing focus on activation policies to promote employment among lone parents. The authors examine whether this common framework of activation has led to a policy convergence across these three countries
Transitional Phase or a New Balance: Working and Caring by Mothers With Young Children in the Netherlands
In recent years in the Netherlands, mothers' labor participation has increased sharply. This article examines which factors influence mothers' employment rates and the division of household and caring responsibilities between parents. From research among 1,285 women with young children, it appears that cultural factors rather than economic motives or institutional obstacles offer the most important explanation for whether they work or not. A cult…
Fish without Bikes: Revision of the Dutch Welfare State and Its Consequences for the (In) dependence of Single Mothers
Contested Professionalism Payments for Care and the Quality of Home Care
In the recent past, policy makers have emphasized the benefits and positive aspects of direct payments for care of frail elderly people. In this article, the authors present the theoretical framework of “struggling logics of home care,” by means of which they explore the underlying logics of the introduction of payments for care: market, family, and state. More specifically, the authors show the strengths and weaknesses of a fourth logic—professi…
Challenges and Risks of Individualisation in The Netherlands
This article evaluates recent transformations in social policy that reflect the tendency towards individualisation in The Netherlands. Such transformations have taken place in old age pensions, widows' pensions, social assistance and taxation, and in respect of child support following divorce. Interestingly most reforms have not resulted in ‘full individualisation’, but rather have taken into account the fact that people, in particular women, are…
The Politics of Sex Education Policy in England and Wales and The Netherlands since the 1980s
Teenage pregnancy rates are extremely high in the UK and extremely low in The Netherlands. Sex education is acknowledged to be a determining factor. While it is by no means the most important factor, it provides a useful comparative lens through which to examine the very different approaches of the British and Dutch to policy-making in this sensitive area.The issue of sex education is controversial in both the UK and The Netherlands, but while th…
Relatives as paid care-givers: How family carers experience payments for care
Payments for care, by which people in need of long-term care directly employ care workers, have been introduced in many European countries. In The Netherlands, care dependants are allowed to use these payments to hire relatives to perform care tasks. Care-givers who are employed by their relatives are in a hybrid position, because they are contracted as employees in the informal setting of a family home and its affective care relationships. This …
Social capital and job search behaviour of long-term welfare recipients
Purpose – Long-term welfare recipients in the Netherlands are either long-term unemployed or part-time employed in jobs that generate incomes below the subsistence level. The question is whether reintegration policies aiming at their return to – a fulltime – job should consider individual social network factors besides psychological and human capital factors. The purpose of this paper is to investigate welfare recipients’ job search behaviour, in…
Couples' decisions on having a first child: Comparing pathways to early and late parenthood
We investigate the decision-making process of having a first child, using theories on individualisation, lifestyle choices and negotiating partnerships as a starting point. We compare couples who had their first child at a relatively young age with tho
Careful or Lenient: Welfare Reform for Lone Mothers in the Netherlands
The 1996 welfare reform that attempted to get lone parents out of social assistance represents a major shift in social policy in the Netherlands. Instead of having the financial right to care for their children, lone mothers are now obliged to earn their living by paid work as soon as their youngest child reaches the age of five. This policy shift is accompanied by additional incentives to support lone mothers in engaging in (part-time) work. Nev…
Child Support Grants in South Africa: A Pathway to Women's Empowerment and Child Well-being
Despite the growth of cash transfers to reduce poverty, promote child and family well-being and women's empowerment, the gender dynamics and impact of social protection remains poorly understood. We hypothesise that poor female care-givers receiving a cash transfer for their children are better able to contribute to the material and social well-being of their children than female care-givers who do not receive a cash transfer. This paper reports …
Social Dilemmas in Images of Motherhood in the Netherlands
The Need for and the Societal Legitimacy of Social Investments in Children and Their Families: Critical Reflections on the Dutch Case
In Europe, social investments on behalf of children have become an important issue in social policy. In the Dutch welfare state debate, however, the issue has only a modest place, which raises questions about whether an extension of existing arrangements would be necessary and what its societal legitimacy would be. This article discusses the first question by putting the Dutch situation and its policies into an international context. The second q…
Sources of Income for Lone Mother Families: Policy Changes in Britain and The Netherlands and the Experiences of Divorced Women
The Netherlands and Britain have treated lone mother families in similar ways in the post-war period. Until very recently they have been alone among countries of the EU in allowing lone mothers to draw benefits without making themselves available for work so long as they have dependent children. At the beginning of the 1990s, both countries attempted (unsuccessfully) to enforce the obligation of 'absent fathers' to maintain. In 1996, the Dutch go…
Children First? Changing Attitudes Toward the Primacy of Children in Five European Countries
Parenting support is a new policy field, directed toward teaching parents how to assume their role. Its foundations are embedded in a child-centered social investment approach, which is becoming dominant in Western European welfare states. This article aims at exploring the extent to which ideas underlying these policies are coherent with individual attitudes toward children, parents, their relationship and their change over time. We analyze how …
Policy, People, and the New Professional: De-professionalisation and Re-professionalisation in Care and Welfare
Gendered familialism in a Mediterranean context: Women’s labor market participation and early childhood education and care in Turkey
This article explores the relationship between women’s labor market participation and early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Turkey within a broader Mediterranean context. Since the 1990s, there have been significant changes in the familialist models in the Mediterranean region driven by women’s increased labor market participation and the expansion of ECEC services. The transformations in the region have unveiled a significant link between…
Unravelling fatherhood: Women's Studies, 1
Unraveling Fatherhood
Social Dilemmas in Images of Motherhood in the Netherlands
Fish without Bikes: Revision of the Dutch Welfare State and Its Consequences for the (In) dependence of Single Mothers
The History of Women in the West. Volume 4: Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War
Introduction: Care Work and Gender in Welfare Regimes
Gender and the Caring Dimension of Welfare States: Toward Inclusive Citizenship
Journal Article Gender and the Caring Dimension of Welfare States: Toward Inclusive Citizenship Get access TRUDIE KNIJN, TRUDIE KNIJN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MONIQUE KREMER MONIQUE KREMER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 4, Issue 3, Fall 1997, Pages 328–361, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfo…
Sources of Income for Lone Mother Families: Policy Changes in Britain and The Netherlands and the Experiences of Divorced Women
The Netherlands and Britain have treated lone mother families in similar ways in the post-war period. Until very recently they have been alone among countries of the EU in allowing lone mothers to draw benefits without making themselves available for work so long as they have dependent children. At the beginning of the 1990s, both countries attempted (unsuccessfully) to enforce the obligation of 'absent fathers' to maintain. In 1996, the Dutch go…
Careful or Lenient: Welfare Reform for Lone Mothers in the Netherlands
The 1996 welfare reform that attempted to get lone parents out of social assistance represents a major shift in social policy in the Netherlands. Instead of having the financial right to care for their children, lone mothers are now obliged to earn their living by paid work as soon as their youngest child reaches the age of five. This policy shift is accompanied by additional incentives to support lone mothers in engaging in (part-time) work. Nev…
The Labor Market Orientation of Single Mothers on Welfare in The Netherlands
Since the implementation of the new General Assistance Act (1996) in The Netherlands, single parents on welfare have become obliged to seek work as soon as their youngest child has become 5 years old. This article presents a study of 1,049 Dutch single mothers on welfare. Using LISREL, a conceptual model is examined for the effects of both the past and current circumstances of the mothers on their labor orientation and on their steps toward a ful…
Transformations of fatherhood: The Netherlands
Fatherhood has taken center stage in the Netherlands. One finds a new emphasis on a father's role as carer, not just as provider, articulated in public discourse, law and social policy. This shift can be illustrated by three striking examples privileging fathers, which reveal the importance of the caring role of fathers. First, the most visible is a media campaign launched by the government to persuade fathers to become more involved in the upbri…
Commodification and de-commodification
Making Men into Fathers: Men, Masculinities and the Social Politics of Fatherhood
Fatherhood is on the political agenda in many countries, often cast in terms of crisis. One side of the policy debate focuses on fathers as deadbeat dads who do not provide financial support and care for their children. The other revolves around making men into active and engaged fathers. However, these policies are often at odds with the employers' reluctance to accommodate work schedules to fathers' needs. In Making Men into Fathers, prominent …
The Politics of Sex Education Policy in England and Wales and The Netherlands since the 1980s
Teenage pregnancy rates are extremely high in the UK and extremely low in The Netherlands. Sex education is acknowledged to be a determining factor. While it is by no means the most important factor, it provides a useful comparative lens through which to examine the very different approaches of the British and Dutch to policy-making in this sensitive area.The issue of sex education is controversial in both the UK and The Netherlands, but while th…
Solidarity Between the Sexes and the Generations: Transformations in Europe
Challenges and Risks of Individualisation in The Netherlands
This article evaluates recent transformations in social policy that reflect the tendency towards individualisation in The Netherlands. Such transformations have taken place in old age pensions, widows' pensions, social assistance and taxation, and in respect of child support following divorce. Interestingly most reforms have not resulted in ‘full individualisation’, but rather have taken into account the fact that people, in particular women, are…
Policy, People, and the New Professional: De-professionalisation and Re-professionalisation in Care and Welfare
Transitional Phase or a New Balance: Working and Caring by Mothers With Young Children in the Netherlands
In recent years in the Netherlands, mothers' labor participation has increased sharply. This article examines which factors influence mothers' employment rates and the division of household and caring responsibilities between parents. From research among 1,285 women with young children, it appears that cultural factors rather than economic motives or institutional obstacles offer the most important explanation for whether they work or not. A cult…
Activation as a Common Framework for Social Policies towards Lone Parents
This article compares recent social policy reforms in respect of lone‐parent families in three different national contexts: France, the Netherlands and the UK. In all three countries there is an increasing focus on activation policies to promote employment among lone parents. The authors examine whether this common framework of activation has led to a policy convergence across these three countries
Contested Professionalism Payments for Care and the Quality of Home Care
In the recent past, policy makers have emphasized the benefits and positive aspects of direct payments for care of frail elderly people. In this article, the authors present the theoretical framework of “struggling logics of home care,” by means of which they explore the underlying logics of the introduction of payments for care: market, family, and state. More specifically, the authors show the strengths and weaknesses of a fourth logic—professi…
Activation as a Common Framework for Social Policies towards Lone Parents
This chapter contains sections titled: From Social Protection to Employment Activation New Instruments for Activation Conclusion Notes References
Private Responsibility and Some Support. Family Policies in The Netherlands
Dutch family policy has been caught between social policies focusing on income redistribution and the labour market, policies that are increasingly inspired by a ‘welfare-to-work’ agenda, and a gender equity policy trying to encourage both men and women to share work and family responsibilities. Currently, the dominant idea about the relationship between work and care is being transformed by combining its traditional corporatist traits, i.e. the …
A matter of facts… and more: An exploratory analysis of the content of sexuality education in The Netherlands
The Netherlands is often recognized for its approach to adolescent sexual health, noted by the country's low rates of teen pregnancy and high contraceptive use among young people. Different studies have compared the sexual health outcomes of youth in The Netherlands with those of young people in other developed countries, and, to varying degrees, have discussed determinants related to the observed differences. Many have concluded that comprehensi…
Explaining Dutch Fertility Rates in a Comparative European Perspective
This article contributes to the search for explanations of the cross-national variation in fertility rates by studying the influence of social policy, economic and cultural factors on fertility in the former EU15, while giving special attention to one case: The Netherlands. This country lacks good social policy for supporting parents to combine work and care and nevertheless has a relatively high fertility rate. This article addresses the backgro…
Patterns of Development in Work/Family Reconciliation Policies for Parents in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK in the 2000s
Work/family reconciliation policies have increasingly become part of employment-led social policy at both EU and Member State levels. Given this trend, we expected to see more attention to policies that unequivocally promote women's employment: childcare provision and the promotion of flexible working, together with reform of leaves that permit labour market exit in order to care for children. Our examination of the nature of change in policy goa…
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