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Pascall, Gillian and Lewis, Jane (2004) Emerging Gender Regimes and Policies for Gender Equality in a Wider Europe. Journal of Social Policy, 33 (3). pp. 373-394.

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Abstract

This article addresses some implications for gender equality and gender policy at European and national levels of transformations in family, economy and polity, which challenge gender regimes across Europe. Women’s labour market participation in the west and the collapse

of communism in the east have undermined the systems and assumptions of western male breadwinner and dual worker models of central and eastern Europe. Political reworking of the work/welfare relationship into active welfare has individualised responsibility. Individualisation

is a key trend west − and in some respects east − and challenges the structures that supported care in state and family. The links that joined men to women, cash to care, incomes to carers have all been fractured. The article will argue that care work and unpaid care workers are

both casualties of these developments. Social, political and economic changes have not been matched by the development of new gender models at the national level. And while EU

gender policy has been admired as the most innovative aspect of its social policy, gender equality is far from achieved: women’s incomes across Europe are well below men’s; policies for supporting unpaid care work have developed modestly compared with labour market activation policies.Enlargement brings new challenges as it draws together gender regimes with contrasting histories and trajectories. The article will map social policies for gender equality across the key

elements of gender regimes – paid work, care work, income, time and voice – and discuss the nature of a model of gender equality that would bring gender equality across these. It

analyses ideas about a dual earner–dual carer model, in the Dutch combination scenario and ‘universal caregiver’ models, at household and civil society levels. These offer a starting point for a model in which paid and unpaid work are equally valued and equally shared between men

and women, but we argue that a citizenship model, in which paid and unpaid work obligations are underpinned by social rights, is more likely to achieve gender equality.

Item Type:	Article
RIS ID:	https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1021732
Keywords:	Gender Regimes, Policies, Gender Equality, Europe
Schools/Departments:	University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Sociology and Social Policy
Depositing User:	Pascall, Professor Gillian
Date Deposited:	24 Jan 2008 12:26
Last Modified:	04 May 2020 20:31
URI:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/797

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