23 research outputs found
How do Schools in Old and New Member States of the EU Treat Minority Ethnic Youth and Shape their Performance?
Eastern Enlargement - Western Enlargement: Cultural Encounters in the European Economy and Society After the Accession (DIOSCURI): Policy Recommendations
Interjú Georges Benko-vel, az Espaces et sociétés és a Society and Space szerkesztőbizottságának tagjával
Long-Term Care and Gender Equality: Fuzzy-Set Ideal Types of Care Regimes in Europe
Recent changes in the organization of long-term care have had controversial effects on gender inequality in Europe. In
response to the challenges of ageing populations, almost all countries have adopted reform measures to secure the increasing resource needs for care, to ensure care services by different providers, to regulate the quality of services, and
overall to recalibrate the work-life balance for men and women. These reforms are embedded in different family ideals of
intergenerational ties and dependencies, divisions of responsibilities between state, market, family, and community actors,
and backed by wider societal support to families to care for their elderly and disabled members. This article disentangles
the different components of the notion of ‘(de)familialization’ which has become a crucial concept of care scholarship.
We use a fuzzy-set ideal type analysis to investigate care policies and work-family reconciliation policies shaping long-term
care regimes. We are making steps to reveal aggregate gender equality impacts of intermingling policy dynamics and also
to relate the analysis to migrant care work effects. The results are explained in a four-pronged ideal type scheme to which
European countries belong. While only Nordic and some West European continental countries are close to the double
earner, supported carer ideal type, positive outliers prove that transformative gender relations in care can be construed
not only in the richest and most generous welfare countries in Europe