Care in Place the International Journal of Networks and Community, 1(3), December 1994, pp.261-271.
Includes a commentary from Finland about government policy on financial compensation for carers. Current practices in Nordic countries are reviewed, with a brief overview of other European government policies, including the UK. Implications for health/social services staff, non-government workers, and carers are identified.
Includes a commentary from Finland about government policy on financial compensation for carers. Current practices in Nordic countries are reviewed, with a brief overview of other European government policies, including the UK. Implications for health/social services staff, non-government workers, and carers are identified.
... families. The book adopts an international and interdisciplinary perspective through its use of qualitative and quantitative data, and a comprehensive theoretical framework. Particular focus is placed on the latest developments in the field of gender equality in different Scandinavian countries – countries which are customarily seen as forerunners in the area, and the book concludes with an in-depth
This book describes how comprehensive gender equality remains an unfulfilled goal in many European countries, despite important developments and challenges to the traditional gendered division of labour. The book reviews recent progress in gender policies in different countries within the European Union, together with recent empirical data on gender relations in the labour market and within families. The book adopts an international and interdisciplinary perspective through its use of qualitative and quantitative data, and a comprehensive theoretical framework. Particular focus is placed on the latest developments in the field of gender equality in different Scandinavian countries – countries which are customarily seen as forerunners in the area, and the book concludes with an in-depth discussion on the possibility of converging alternate gender policy regimes within Europe. Main chapters include: comparing gender regimes: a theoretical framework; the Scandinavian gender regime: myth or reality?; gender policies in the European Union; work-family reconciliation in practice; and the concluding discussion: towards a European gender regime?
Subject terms:
labour market, social policy, families, equal opportunities, European Union, gender;
International Journal of Social Welfare, 12(1), January 2003, pp.2-13.
Publisher:
Wiley
This article compares family policies in two Scandinavian and three Confucian Asian countries. Through a general survey on schemes of child allowance and parental leave, it seeks explaining factors for cross-regime diversity of the welfare systems. In focus are the agents affecting the family policy-making process, including social classes, the state, women and families. In order to assess
This article compares family policies in two Scandinavian and three Confucian Asian countries. Through a general survey on schemes of child allowance and parental leave, it seeks explaining factors for cross-regime diversity of the welfare systems. In focus are the agents affecting the family policy-making process, including social classes, the state, women and families. In order to assess the roles these agents have played, this study retraces the preconditions of family policy development and its associated socio-cultural backgrounds. Results from such an examination will illustrate how the social order determines the patterns of family policy, which offers a new path to travel to these different cultural 'worlds'.
Subject terms:
parental leave, policy formulation, social welfare, socioeconomic groups, welfare state, women, benefits, Chinese people, comparative studies, cultural identity, families;