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Gender and Well-Being The Role of Institutions
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Routledge
290 Pages
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Routledge
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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 to all or to some specific groups of citizens in need. The purpose of this book is to study the interplay of these institutions... Read more
1: Gender and Well-being; I: Gender and Welfare Regimes; 2: Gender and Social Citizenship in Historical Perspective; 3: Scandinavian Gender Equality; 4: Too Much Family and Too Much Gender Inequality; 5: A Social-reproduction and Well-being Approach to Gender Budgets; II: Gender, Well-being and the Provision of Care; 6: Home Care and Cash Transfers; 7: Transnational Caregiving between Australia, Italy and El Salvador; 8: A Good Step Forward, but Not Far Enough; III: Gender and Well-being in the Labour Market; 9: Gender (In)equality in the Labour Market and the Southern European Welfare States; 10: Reconciliation of Work and Family in Greece; 11: Perceived Workâlife Conflict among Swedish Dual-earner Families; 12: What Makes French Employees So Happy with their Balance between Family and Work?
Biography
Elisabetta Addis, University of Sassari, Italy, Paloma de Villota, Complutense University of Madrid, Florence Degavre, Catholic University, Louvain and John Eriksen, Norwegian Social Research Institute, Norway.
