Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of ‘the Social’

   1. Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of ‘the Social’

      • Shireen Hassim, Shahra Razavi

      Pages 1-39

3. Historical and Regional Trajectories in Social Provisioning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Mothers at the Service of the New Poverty Agenda: The PROGRESA/Oportunidades Programme in Mexico

      • Maxine Molyneux

      Pages 43-67

   3. Gender and Post-socialist Welfare States in Central Eastern Europe: Family Policy Reforms in Poland and the Czech Republic Compared

      • Silke Steinhilber

      Pages 68-86

   4. Maternalist Policies versus Women’s Economic Citizenship? Gendered Social Policy in Iran

      • Valentine M. Moghadam

      Pages 87-108

   5. Gender Equality and Developmental Social Welfare in South Africa

      • Shireen Hassim

      Pages 109-129

   6. Social Policy Reforms and Gender in Japan and South Korea

      • Ito Peng

      Pages 130-150

   7. The Evolution of the Women-friendly State: Opportunities and Constraints in the Swedish Welfare State

      • Barbara Hobson

      Pages 151-172

   8. The Adult-worker-model Family and Gender Equality: Principles to Enable the Valuing and Sharing of Care

      • Jane Lewis, Susanna Giullari

      Pages 173-190

4. Labour Market Informality and the Search for Social Security

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. Labour Market Informalization, Gender and Social Protection: Reflections on Poor Urban Households in Bolivia and Ecuador

      • Lourdes Benería, Maria S. Floro

      Pages 193-216

   3. Working People and Access to Social Protection

      • Francie Lund

      Pages 217-233

5. Gender Dimensions of Social-sector Restructuring

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235

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   2. Gender and Health Sector Reform: Analytical Perspectives on African Experience

      • Maureen Mackintosh, Paula Tibandebage

      Pages 237-257

   3. Health Sector Reform in China: Gender Equality and Social Justice

      • Jufen Wang

      Pages 258-277

   4. Secondary Education in the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh: Gender Dimensions of State Policy and Practice

      • Jyotsna Jha, Ramya Subrahmanian

      Pages 278-298

6. Financing Social Provisioning and Counting in Women

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-299

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   2. Gendered Implications of Tax Reform in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica and Jamaica

      • Evelyne Huber

      Pages 301-321

   3. Expectations versus Realities in Gender-responsive Budget Initiatives

      • Debbie Budlender

      Pages 322-339

This book illustrates why both academic research and policy thinking need to factor-in gender hierarchies and structures if they are to address some of the key challenges of contemporary societies: the widespread informality and insecurity of paid work and the crisis of care.

• development
• family policy
• gender
• poverty
• social justice
• social policy
• social security
• tax reform
• women

'...an extremely valuable feminist viewpoint on social policy in a global context.' - Diane Perrons, Feminist Economics

• United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland

  Shahra Razavi

• University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

  Shireen Hassim

LOURDES BENERIA Professor of City and Regional Planning and Women's Studies and Director, International Studies in Planning Programme, Cornell University, USA DEBBIE BUDLENDER Specialist Researcher of Social Policy, Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE), South Africa MARIA S. FLORO Associate Professor, Economics Department, American University, USA SUSY GIULLARI Former BA Fellow and Research Officer, UK BARBARA HOBSON Professor of Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden EVELYNE HUBER Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA JYOTSNA JHA Advisor on Gender and Education, Social Transformation Programmes Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, UK JANE LEWIS Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK FRANCES LUND Associate Professor in Social Policy, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa MAUREEN MACKINTOSH Professor of Economics, The Open University, UK VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM Chief of Section, Social and Human Sciences Sector, UNESCO, USA MAXINE MOLYNEUX Professor of Sociology, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, UK ITO PENG Associate Professor of Political Sociology and Director, Dr. David Chu Chair Programme in Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto, Canada SILKE STEINHILBER Researcher and Consultant, Germany RAMYA SUBRAHMANIAN Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK PAULA TIBANDEBAGE Senior Research Fellow, Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF), Tanzania JUFEN WANG Professor, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University, China

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