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Gendered Welfare Regimes, Work–Family Patterns and Women’s Employment

  • Anne ReimatEmail author
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Abstract

The ways family members combine paid and unpaid work—work–family patterns—have evolved throughout history, in parallel with changes in gender relations and gender equality.

However, cross-country variations in work–family patterns are still marked.

This chapter analyses the evolution of employment patterns within the family after the Second World War from a gendered welfare regime perspective. Belonging to a given gendered welfare regime type has, in general, a strong explanative power in accounting for the design of work–family arrangements. Nevertheless, some countries are departing from what is expected, giving a more nuanced picture of the idea of a typical linear historical evolution, common to all industrialised countries, from a ‘male breadwinner family’ to a ‘dual full-time earner family’.

Keywords

Gender Employment Welfare regimes 
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  1. 1.REGARDsUniversity of ReimsReimsFrance

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