Gender and well being: the role of institutions
(2011) ISBN: [9781409407058], XVI-267 p. pages, published
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- Provisioning for basic human needs is done in three main kind of institutions: the familial household; the commercial enterprise selling goods and services; the institutions of the Welfare State that provide education, medical care and other goods and personal services. The purpose of this book is to study the interplay of these institutions and their impact on well-being, and to analyze key policies and measures that have been implemented in European countries. Contents: Preface; Gender and well-being: the role of institutions, Elisabetta Addis, Paloma de Villota, Florence Degavre and John Eriksen. Section 1: Gender and Welfare Regimes: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives: Gender and welfare regimes in historical perspective: the development of welfare policy in England and Wales from the Poor Law to Beveridge, Bernard Harris; Scandinavian gender equality: competing discourses and paradoxes, Anette Borchorst; Too much family and too much gender inequality: women’s and men’ total work in Mediterranean countries, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Paula Rodriguez Modroño and Mónica Domínguez Serrano; A social-reproduction and well-being approach to gender budgets: experiments at local government level in Italy, Tindara Addabbo, Giovanna Badalassi, Francesca Corrado and Antonella Picchio. Section 2: Gender, Well-Being and the Provision of Care: the Family and the Household: Home care and cash transfers: the search for a sustainable elderly-care model, Annamaria Simonazzi; Transnational caregiving between Australia, Italy and El Salvador: the impact of institutions on the capability to care at a distance, Laura Merla and Loretta Baldassar; A good step forward but not far enough: the provision of care credits in European pension systems, Athina Vlachantoni. Section 3: Gender and Well-Being in the Labor Market: Gender (in)equality in the labor market and the southern European welfare states, Sara Falcão Casaca and Sónia Damião; Reconciliation of work and family in Greece: policy responses and dimensions of public debate, Laura Alipranti-Maratou and Anna Nikolaou; Perceived work-life conflict among Swedish women in dual earner families, Linda Lane and Margareta Bäck-Wiklund; What makes French employees so happy with their balance between family and work? The impact of family-friendly policies, Ariane Palhé and Anne Solaz; Index.
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Degavre, F., De Villota, P., Eriksen, J., & Addis, E. (2011). Gender and well being: the role of institutions. Ashgate. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/270067