No-one can hope to understand the workings of the welfare state without first appreciating women's part in it. In the past decade the significance of the gendering of welfare states has become widely accepted, extensively charted in research, and more systematically theorised. This edition reflects this substantial development of work on women and social policy. It also reflects extensive social changes in women's participation at work, educational achievement, security in marriage; and policy changes aimed at producing a mixed economy of welfare, increasing family responsibility in health,...

In the past decade the significance of the gendering of welfare states has become widely accepted, extensively charted in research, and more systematically theorized. This edition reflects this substantial development of work on women and social policy. It also reflects extensive social changes in women's participation at work, educational achievement, security in marriage; and policy changes aimed at producing a mixed economy of welfare, increasing family responsibility in health, community care, housing, education and income security. It examines the changing pattern of welfare provision,...

Understanding of welfare states has been much enriched by comparative work on welfare regimes and gender. This book uses these debates to illuminate the changing gender regimes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It has particular significance as countries in the region make the transition from Communism and into a European Union that has issues of women's employment, work-life balance, and gender equality at the heart of its social policy.