Dual Welfare and Sex Segregation of Access to Social Benefits

Income Maintenance Policies in the UK, the US, the Netherlands and Sweden

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2113564
AutoresDiane Sainsbury (autor correspondente)
Ano1993
Volume22
Fascículo1
Páginas69-98
Data de publicação1993-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047279400019115
OpenAlexW1995867260
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas23
Referências citadas16

In examining the sex of beneficiaries of income maintenance programmes, several country-specific studies suggest a pattern of segregation between women and men in access to types of benefit. Men are more likely to be recipients of social insurance benefits, whilst women often must rely on means-tested programmes, and frequently their claims to insurance benefits are via their husband. This conclusion is re-examined through a comparison of insurance and means-tested programmes in the UK, the US, the Netherlands, and Sweden. The purpose is to determine, first, to what extent such a pattern of segregation emerges in the four countries and, second, what mechanisms operate to exclude or include women. The comparison reveals that the Swedish case deviates from the other three countries, and policy constructions inhibiting and promoting greater equality between women and men in access to social benefits are discussed. The results also have theoretical implications for dual welfare as an analytical framework and feminist thinking about the welfare state

Business · Demographic economics · Dual (grammatical number) · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Public economics · Social insurance · Social policy · Social Welfare · Welfare · Welfare state · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Social Policy and Reform Studies