Gender equality and care policy:

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2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 225-242
Author(s):  
Sebastian Scheele

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.


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Kirstein Rummery

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.


1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-127
Author(s):  
Vicki S. Helgeson
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