Gender Equality and Welfare States or Japan after the Economic Miracle

Gender, Equality and Welfare States

Author: Diane Sainsbury

What differences do welfare state variations make for women? How do women and men fare in different welfare states? Diane Sainsbury answers these questions by analyzing the United States, Britain, Sweden and The Netherlands, whose welfare policies differ in significant ways. Building on feminist research, she determines the extent to which legislation reflects and perpetuates the gendered division of labor in the family and society, as well as what types of policy alter gender relations in social provision. She offers constructive proposals for securing greater equality between women and men.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Mainstream welfare state variations	9
2	Gendering dimensions of welfare states	33
3	The male breadwinner model and women's entitlements as wives	49
4	Women's entitlements as mothers and caregivers	73
5	Women's employment and entitlements as workers	104
6	Access to benefits and the stratifying effects of bases of entitlement	129
7	Benefit inequalities and redistributive outcomes	148
8	Gender equality reforms and their impact	173
9	Welfare state retrenchment	198
	Notes	225
	References	231
	Index	252

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Japan after the Economic Miracle (Social Indicators Research Series-Vol. 3): In Search of New Directions

Author: Paul Bowles

As Japan comes to grip with a decade of economic malaise after its spectacular postwar growth record, how will Japanese society react? Contributors to this volume examine the challenges ahead for Japan in the fields of politics, economics, sociology, environment and business. This multidisciplinary inquiry looks for areas of continuity and for new directions in government, business and social policy and practice. Also examined is how Western students should approach the study of Japan; what new directions should institutions take to ensure that students learn about the 'real' Japan? Written by Canadian academics, the articles in this volume will be of interest to academics and policy-makers studying or teaching about contemporary Japan.