دانلود کتاب Gender Equality in the Welfare State?

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Gender equality in  the welfare state?\n Copyright material\nContents\nList of figures, tables and boxes\n Figures\n Tables\nAbout the author\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\n Government commitments to equality\n What alternative concepts of gender equality have been debated?\n Universal citizenship\n Gender roles and gender equality\n The male breadwinner model in the post-war period: how much was it built into welfare state assumptions and institutions?\n The male breadwinner model: how much have families changed?\n How committed have UK governments been to gender equality?\n How the book is organised: power, employment, care, time and income\n Chapter summary\nUnderstanding gender in welfare states\n Introduction\n How can we understand welfare and welfare states?\n How can we understand gender equalities and inequalities?\n Uprooting gender in welfare states?\n Are genes obstacles to changes towards gender equality in practice?\n Masculinity and femininity?\n Do different lives reflect different choices?\n Can we afford public expenditure?\n Conclusion\n Chapter summary\nGendered power\n Introduction\n Gendered households\n Civil society: protest and change\n Gendered government\n Gendered government? Do other countries do better?\n Gender equality in European politics?\n Conclusion\n Chapter summary\nGendered employment\n Introduction\n What ideologies underpin policies for gender equality in employment?\n What might gender equality in employment mean?\n Gender inequalities in practice in participation and occupations\n Valuing women’s work\n How do changes in education relate to changes in employment?\n Gender and socio-economic differences\n Gender differences and ethnicity\n Gender differences and disability\n Disadvantage and employment\n Motherhood\n The UK in a European context\n The Conservative/Liberal government’s policy for employment\n Conclusion\n Chapter summary\nGendered care\n Introduction\n Ideologies of care\n Gender equality in care\n The best strategies for children?\n Parental leave policies in the UK\n Parental leave policies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Scandinavia\n Childcare policies\n Access to care for young and old\n European comparisons\n Conclusion\n Chapter summary\nGendered income\n Introduction\n Principles for gender equality in income maintenance?\n Gender and income\n Supporting children\n How do current policies support lone parent families?\n How does the welfare state compensate care and carers?\n Gender differences in assets in the UK\n Gender differences in poverty in the UK\n Do other countries challenge gender inequality in poverty, income and assets more successfully?\n Will current changes reduce the risk of poverty for women pensioners?\n Universal credits: simplicity and work incentives?\n Conclusion\n Chapter summary\nGendered time\n What would gender equal time mean?\n How important are time differences as a component of gender inequalities now?\n Mothers’ and fathers’ time\n A misallocation of time?\n How would men and women prefer to spend their time?\n Do UK policies support equal time to underpin equal work and equal earnings and work–life balance?\n Working time policies in Sweden\n Working time policies: part-time work in the Netherlands’ combination scenario\n A shorter working week in France\n Could policies enhance the quality of part-time work in the UK?\n Conclusion\n Chapter summary\nConclusion\n Why does a universal citizenship model underpin the arguments for gender equality?\n Why the male breadwinner/female carer model illuminates our understanding of what exists in the UK, how it has changed and how it is changing?\n How does the UK measure against the dual earner social democracies of Scandinavia? the post-communist countries of CEE? And the male breadwinner regimes?\n What has been the balance between individuals, markets, civil society and governments in the UK’s gender policies?\n Understanding the vision and programme of the Conservative/Liberal government: Plan A for austerity in public life\n Plan B for economic growth and jobs\n Plan B for gender equality\n Chapter summary\nReferences\n Websites\nIndex