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Gender and Welfare Regimes

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ID12426135
AuthorsJ Lewis (0000-0001-5044-5110), Jerry M Lewis (0000-0001-5858-8634, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume4
Issue2
Pages160-177
Publication date1997-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/sp/4.2.160
OpenAlexW2031544026
LanguageEN
Citations received183
References cited29

This article reviews the feminist critique of Gøsta Esping-Andersen's typology of welfare regimes and revisits my earlier (1992) analysis of gender and welfare regimes together with criticisms of that work. I briefly discuss some methodological issues and attempt to justify my own choice of variables and of an explanatory model derived from empirical historical work. I pay particular attention to critiques that insist on the use of caring regimes as a basis for gender-centered typologies, not least because the two main questions for feminists concerning the provision of unpaid work remain (i) how to value it, and (ii) how to share it more equally between men and women. I argue that women's relationship to paid work, unpaid work and to welfare makes the search for gender-centered measures complicated

Economics · Positive economics · Sociology · Typology · Unpaid work · Value (mathematics · Welfare · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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