Gender Equality in the Field of Care: Policy Goals and Outcomes During the Merkel Era

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Diana Auth ◽  
Almut Peukert
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Care Policy ◽  
Policy Goals

scholarly journals Entrepreneurship and Gender Equality in Academia – a Complex Combination in Practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britt-Inger Keisu ◽  
Lena Abrahamsson ◽  
Malin Rönnblom
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Academic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Entrepreneurial Universities ◽  
Policy Goal ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One ◽  
Transformation Processes

This article takes as its starting point two current trends in academia – the promotion of academic entrepreneurship and innovation and the promotion of gender equality – and discusses how different gender equality perspectives are interwoven, or not, into academia’s transformation processes towards entrepreneurial universities. On the basis of an analysis of 26 interviews conducted with personnel at two Swedish universities, the article investigates how concepts of academic entrepreneurship and innovation on the one hand and gender equality on the other hand are constructed and filled with meaning as well as how they are entangled and what effects are produced by this way of thinking and acting. Our analysis reveals tensions between the two policy goals, together with tensions within each goal. An overall conclusion is that articulations and ways of speaking about the policy goal of academic entrepreneurship and innovation were to some extent interwoven with the policy goal of gender equality, especially in the broader perspectives on academic entrepreneurship. However, the articulations of strategies and practice of the two policy goals essentially ran parallel, and were not entangled with one another. This is because strategies or substantial initiatives for merging gender equality into the agenda of academic entrepreneurship and innovation were lacking.

Framing and Claiming “Gender Equality”: A Multi-level Analysis of the French Civic Integration Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 496-518
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Onasch
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Civic Integration ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Integration Program ◽  
French Republicanism

The recent construction of “gender equality” as a defining value of European societies has shaped the policy goals of immigrant integration programs. This focus on “gender equality” may function, paradoxically, to exclude immigrants, if immigrant integration policies rely on stereotypical representations of immigrants and fail to acknowledge the multiple, intersecting forms of inequality that immigrant women face. This article contributes to the critical scholarship on the role of “gender equality” in the field of immigrant integration policy by examining the framing of this concept in the policy documents and implementation of the French civic integration program. Using ethnographic observations and field interviews, I illustrate how frontline workers, many of whom were women of immigrant origin, interacted with participants to frame “gender equality” in exclusionary and inclusionary ways, and how “gender equality” functioned as a racial boundary within the program. The tensions in the discourses of frontline workers mirrored those of the political context in which the policy developed; they were constrained by a difference-blind ideology of French republicanism as they insisted on “gender equality” as the pathway to belonging in France.

Zur Geschlechterdimension sozialräumlicher Reformvorschläge in der Pflegepolitik

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 225-242
Author(s):  
Sebastian Scheele
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Spatial Orientation ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Geriatric Care ◽  
The State ◽  
Care Policy ◽  
Spatial Perspective ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
Gender Equality Policy

Zusammenfassung Pflegepolitische Reformvorschläge beziehen sich häufig auf eine im weitesten Sinne sozialräumliche Perspektive. Ihre jeweils zu erwartenden Auswirkungen auf Gleichstellung bleiben dabei meist unbenannt – obschon pflegepolitische Reformen keineswegs geschlechterpolitisch neutral sind, wie insbesondere die feministische Care-Debatte herausgestellt hat. Um den Zusammenhang von Gender, Sozialraumorientierung und Pflege auszuleuchten, skizziert der Beitrag zuerst den fachlichen Stand von Teilperspektiven: erstens Gender und Care und die Konkretisierung Gleichstellung und Pflegepolitik, zweitens Sozialraumorientierung in der Pflegepolitik, drittens die Berücksichtigung von Geschlecht in der Sozialraumorientierung. Anschließend werden pflegepolitische Reformvorschläge vorgestellt, die Gender und Sozialraumorientierung zusammendenken, und schließlich zusammenfassend Handlungsbedarfe einer gleichstellungs- und sozialraumorientierten Pflegepolitik dargestellt. Abstract: On The Gender Dimension of Socio-Spatial Reform Proposals in Care Policy Reform proposals in care policy often refer to a socio-spatial perspective. Their expectable effects on gender equality usually remain unnamed – although care policy and its reforms are anything but gender neutral, as the vast feminist debate on care has shown. To illuminate the connection of gender, socio-spatial orientation and (geriatric) care policy, the article initially sketches the state of expertise on subsections: first gender and care and their operationalisation as gender equality policy and (geriatric) care policy, second socio-spatial orientation in (geriatric) care policy, third consideration of gender in socio-spatial perspectives. Subsequently, it presents reform proposals in care policy combining gender and socio-spatial orientation. Finally, it compiles needs for action of a care policy comprising gender equality as well as socio-spatial perspectives.

Evaluating the role of bricolage in US Health Care policy reform

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-502
Author(s):  
Adam Hannah
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Healthcare Reform ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Care Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Goals

Understanding of the role of ideas in non-paradigmatic policy change has been advanced by the introduction of the concept of bricolage, which suggests that reformers are likely to piece together ideas from disparate sources. However, the current literature is limited in several ways. As such, this article proposes three main contributions to the field. First, the use of bricolage as a pragmatic strategy is perfectly compatible with actors being motivated by relatively fixed policy goals or seeking to imitate policies from elsewhere. Second, the creative use of ideas can be limited by the imposition of narrow frames or problem definitions by the victors of agenda-setting battles. Third, the use of bricolage comes with more potential for conflict and unintended consequences than has been recognised. This argument is illustrated through an analysis of healthcare reform in the United States in 2009/10, focusing particularly on the fate of the ‘public option’.

scholarly journals Gender equality and the governance of long-term care policy: new comparative models and paradigms

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Kirstein Rummery
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Care Policy ◽  
Term Care ◽  
New Models ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Way

Abstract There is a long-established link between care policies and gender equality outcomes, and much modelling of welfare state typologies look at care provision as a distinguishing feature. However, to date, little research has been done which has systematically and critically examined those links by examining the policies and the way they operate, how and why they affect gender equality, and the governance of care policies in a comparative way. This paper draws on evidence from a recently completed comparative study looking at long-term care and gender equality. A CQA (Comparative Qualitative Analysis) approach was used to identify case studies, and further analysis carried out which focussed on: overall, how the policies and the way they operated to achieve gender equality; the governance and design of policies that led to good gender equality outcomes; the level of policy making; the role of the state, the family, the community and the nonstatutory civic sector in designing and delivering effective policies; and how context specific the ideas, actors and institutions supporting the policies were. Instead of using existing welfare typologies that were not driven by gender equality as the defining outcome variable, the author takes an inductive approach to policy analysis to compare policy outcomes according to gender equity outcomes. She devises two new models of long-term care policy: the Universal Model and the Partnership Model, both of which lead to improved gender equality in different ways. This paper concludes by noting the need to move beyond existing welfare state typologies in examining gender equality outcomes, which will result in new models as depicted here.

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