Who cares?
Subtitle: women's work, childcare, and welfare state redesign
By: Jane Jenson and Mariette Sineau ; with Franca Bimbi ... [et al.].
Contributors: Sineau, Mariette.
Series: Studies in comparative political economy and public policy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Child care -- Government policy -- Europe; Mothers -- Employment -- Europe; Work and family -- Government policy -- Europe
Description: "By focusing on childcare and systematically comparing national experiences in Belgium, France, Italy, Sweden, and the European Union, Who Cares? provides detailed information on recent social policies and a clear perspective on welfare state redesign. Many countries have now designed childcare policies to reconcile family and work. Some encourage parents to provide their own childcare by granting parental leave; others encourage parents to stay at work by supporting childcare services.

Using the case of childcare policy, the contributors to this volume examine how public policy choices over the last three decades have been fashioned by specific understandings of the gendered division of labour."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-289).