Gender and the Caring Dimension of Welfare States: Toward Inclusive Citizenship

Towards an integrated approach for the analysis of gender equity in policies supporting paid work and care responsibilities

“…or incomplete (EspingAndersen 2009) character of the "gender equality revolution." Some authors emphasise, however, that unpaid work is not just a constraint on paid work, but also a valuable activity that deserves more social recognition (e.g., Knijn and Kremer 1997;Knijn and Ostner 2008). In an attempt to combine the two perspectives in order to develop a policy approach that fosters gender equity, Gornick and Meyers (2009) have argued that the dual earner/dual carer model resolves the tension between employment-focused and care-focused demands concerning both gender equity and women's financial autonomy.…”

Reproduction and citizenship/reproducing citizens: editorial introduction

“…This work has been framed through a variety of conceptualisations of citizenship, each of which offers a rather different emphasis: feminist citizenship (Jones 1990;Lister 1997), inclusive citizenship (Knijn and Kremer 1997;Lister 2007), gendered citizenship (Siim 2000;Lister et al 2007;Caldwell et al 2009;Sümer 2011, 2012), sexual citizenship (Cossman 2007;Ryan-Flood 2009), intimate citizenship (Plummer 2003(Plummer , 2005Smyth 2008;Roseneil 2010;Roseneil et al 2012), as well as embodied (Bacchi and Beasley 2002), bodily (Outshoorn et al 2012) and biopolitical (Tyler 2010) citizenship.…”

“…This has led to arguments about how the analysis of the ways in which welfare regimes of the global north support, provide or neglect care-work is crucial to understanding citizenship (Knijn and Kremer 1997;Tronto 2001;Lister et al 2007;Bergman et al 2012;Le Feuvre et al 2012). Relatedly, the care-work of citizen-mothers has come to be understood as vital to "the reproduction of the nation" (Yuval-Davis and Anthias 1989;Yuval-Davis 1996;Luibheid 2004;Tyler 2013), so that demographic concerns about the health, strength and/ or ethnic/ racial composition of the nation have historically often shaped reproductive law and policy, and hence who is and is not able to have children (Yuval-Davis and Anthias 1989;Mottier and Gerodetti 2007).…”

‘Can't cook, won't cook’: men's involvement in cooking when their wives develop dementia

“…In turn, although men's work is seen as deserving of citizenship rights (Glenn 2000), women's involvement in caring (particularly in the private sphere) has been neglected or even disregarded, with the result that their citizenship rights have not received the same state recognition (Abraham et al 2010). Yet, whilst some feminists have called for the inclusion of care as a basis for gendered citizenship (for example, Knijn and Kremer 1997), others have cautioned that identifying care as primarily women's responsibility perpetuates this gendered division of labour (see Pateman 1992, Lister 1999.…”