How welfare states care : culture, gender and parenting in Europe /
Indepth analysis of women's (and men's) employment and care patterns, as well as, child care services, taxation, leave schemes and social security in four different walfare states of Europe.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Amsterdam] :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | Changing welfare states.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Working women and the question of care and culture in Europe
- Cinderella and Snow White are fairy tales : linking care and citizenship
- Policy or culture? Explaining women's employment differences in Europe
- Citizenship in practice : work, care, and income
- The right to give care : tax, social security, and leave
- The right to receive care : the state of childcare services
- After full-time mother care : ideals of care in policy
- How welfare states work : ideals of care in practice
- Conclusion : care and the cultural dimension of welfare states
- Appendix I. Governments in Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, and the UK 1980-2000
- Appendix II. List of interviewees.