Towards a European Union Gender Equality Index

Plantenga, Janneke; Remery, Chantal; Figueiredo, Hugo; Smith, Mark

doi:10.1177/0958928708098521

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“…As welfare states and families share the responsibility for ADL/IADL support in one way or another and family support is highly gendered, welfare states are expected to influence not only familial support behaviour but also gender inequality in support provided by the family (Leitner 2003;Arksey and Glendinning 2008). It is argued that welfare state policies can reinforce or reduce gender inequality, depending on how they are implemented and the values and norms they reflect (Leitner 2003;Plantenga et al 2009;Ungerson 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

Gendered support to older parents: do welfare states matter?

Brandt²,

2011

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The aim of this study is to examine the association of welfare state policies and the gendered organisation of intergenerational support (instrumental help and personal care) to older parents. The study distinguishes between support to older parents provided at least weekly, i.e. time-intensive and often burdening support, and supplemental sporadic support. Three policy instruments were expected to be associated with daughters' and sons' support or gender inequality in intergenerational support respectively: (1) professional social services, (2) cash-for-care payments and (3) legal obligations to provide or co-finance care for parents. The analyses based on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe showed that daughters provided somewhat more sporadic and much more intensive support than sons throughout Europe. While about half of all children who sporadically supported a parent were men, this applied to only one out of four children who provided intensive support. Logistic multilevel models revealed that legal obligations were positively associated with daughters' likelihood of giving intensive support to parents but did not affect the likelihood of sons doing so. Legal obligations thus stimulate support in a gender-specific way. Both legal obligations and cash-forcare schemes were also accompanied by a more unequal distribution of involvement in intensive support at the expense of women. Social services, in contrast, were linked to a lower involvement of daughters in intensive support. In sum, the results suggest that welfare states can both preserve or reduce gender inequality in intergenerational support depending on specific arrangements.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered support to older parents: do welfare states matter?

Brandt²,

2011

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“…This type of research, in which child-related policies are included, has developed a series of indices that can measure gender equality (e.g. Plantenga et al, 2009;Kershaw, 2010), active fatherhood (e.g. Smith and Williams, 2007), work-family reconciliation (e.g.…”

Section: A Country-comparative Family Policy Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring state de-familialism: Contesting post-socialist exceptionalism

Javornik

2014

Journal of European Social Policy

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This article offers a methodology to reveal the latent constructs which underlie policies on parental leave and childcare services. It is constructed to uncover the state assumptions about social organisation of childcare and gender roles in a country-comparative perspective. Legal regulations are central to this analysis, and combinations of policy components take centre stage. An index of state de-familialism isproposed and its analytical potential tested on eight post-socialist EU states. Grounded in Leitner's (2003) conceptualisation of familialism, it gauges three policy types: (1) Slovenian and Lithuanian supported defamilialism incentivises women's continuous employment and active fatherhood, (2) explicit familialism in Hungary, Czech Republic, and Estonia supports familial childcare and reinforces gendered parenting, and (3) implicit familialism in Poland, Slovakia, and Latvia leaves parents without public support. These groups share core characteristics with developed welfare-state regimes. This methodology has the potential to discredit claims of post-socialist exceptionalism and allows researchers to test new hypotheses.

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“…More recently, the gender gap has also diminished greatly in the Liberal and the General Family Support regimes. The Familialistic cluster has been characterized by the largest activity gap, as gender role differentiation has been most pronounced there and traditional gender norms have had a strong hold (Lewis 2006;Plantenga et al 2009). Women's increasing economic activities have also boosted their engagement in higher education (Blossfeld 1995).…”

Section: Changing Gender Rolesmentioning

confidence: 99%