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| Southern European welfare regimes and the worsening position of women | | Author(s) | Rossana Trifiletti |
| Journal title | Journal of European Social Policy, vol 9, no 1, February 1999 |
| Pages | pp 49-64 |
| Keywords | Social welfare ; Sexual equality ; Older women ; The Family ; Social policy ; Theory ; Italy. |
| Annotation | This contribution to the current debate on welfare regimes brings together the need for a fourth welfare regime beside Esping-Andersen's 1990 model, "The three worlds of welfare capitalisms", and the results of its feminist critique. It is particularly the case of Southern European countries that a gendered point of view seems crucial, to define the specificities of a different path in developing social protection. Comparative analyses on gender and welfare state seldom consider Mediterranean countries, where the concept of subsidiarity formulated for continental-corporatist welfare regimes has to be modified. The family is still centre stage, but in the sense that only certain social risks are covered largely by the welfare state: the state does not support families' normal social functioning. Since this relationship between the family and social policies has usually remained invisible, it is highly probable that rationalising interventions may have even worse effects on women's condition. Some recent transformations of Italian welfare state are analysed as an example of such a danger. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990301206 A |
| Classmark | TY: TM8: BD: SJ: TM2: 4D: 76V |
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