How welfare states care : culture, gender and parenting in Europe /
Kremer, Monique.
[Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press,
c2007.
"How Welfare States Care shows, by in depth analyses of women's (and men's) employment and care patterns as well as child care services, taxation, leave schemes and social security in four different welfare states (the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium) that this logic does not hold. A mother is not primarily the homo economicus welfare state scholars tend to presume. This book demonstrates that European women are more motivated by culturally and morally shaped ideals of care embedded in welfare states than by economic reality."--BOOK JACKET.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Working women and the question of care and culture in Europe -- Cinderella and Snow White are fairy tales : linking care and citizenship -- Policy or culture? Explaining women's employment differences in Europe -- Citizenship in practice : work, care, and income -- The right to give care : tax, social security, and leave -- The right to receive care : the state of childcare services -- After full-time mother care : ideals of care in policy -- How welfare states work : ideals of care in practice -- Conclusion : care and the cultural dimension of welfare states -- Appendix I. Governments in Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, and the UK 1980-2000 -- Appendix II. List of interviewees.
"How Welfare States Care shows, by in depth analyses of women's (and men's) employment and care patterns as well as child care services, taxation, leave schemes and social security in four different welfare states (the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium) that this logic does not hold. A mother is not primarily the homo economicus welfare state scholars tend to presume. This book demonstrates that European women are more motivated by culturally and morally shaped ideals of care embedded in welfare states than by economic reality."--BOOK JACKET.
Work and family
Child care
Women
Women
Mothers
Parents
Welfare state
How welfare states care.